[Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

[Stephen Tetley]

Cygwin is fine for development - the shell is Bash (this can probably
be changed), so it is much more capable than the MS shell. Personally
I've never needed to uninstall Cygwin, if things get in a mess
re-running the Cygwin installer seems to sort things out.

One caveat is that if you want to build Haskell bindings to C
libraries, MinGW+MSys is preferable to Cygwin. Cygwin shared libraries
depend on the cygwin.dll which generally isn't what you want for
bindings.