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

Alberto G. Corona agocorona at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 14:49:55 EST 2010


I use Hint for the same purpose. It has been tested under windows

2010/11/12 Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com>

> 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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