[Haskell-cafe] Re: dynamic loading of code on windows

[Arnaud Bailly]

Hello Kevin,
Thanks. I understand that this is a toolchain issue, I just got used
to the nice feeling of having 'cabal install foo' works seamlessly and
flawlessly to get me some magic piece of software :-) I will try to be
more patient and try to setup a proper toolchain for installing
plugins package.

Arnaud

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kevin Jardine <kevinjardine at gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't about the plugin functionality, it's about compiling code.
>
> As the message says :
>
> This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or
> Cygwin.
>
> You'll find that you need such a toolchain to compile much open source
> software, including many Haskell modules, on Windows.
>
> Personally I use MinGW+MSYS on my Windows machine. It works very well.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Nov 12, 3:20 pm, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oq... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I recently tried to
>>
>> cabal install plugins
>>
>> on a windows box and it failed with the following error:
>>
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> Downloading plugins-1.5.1.4...
>> Configuring plugins-1.5.1.4...
>> cabal: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix
>> compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin.
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> plugins-1.5.1.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> ExitFailure 1
>>
>> What solution can I use to load dynamically code in a cross-platform way ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Arnaud
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