[Haskell-cafe] Win32: cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user ?

[Ryan Yates]

I never set the prefix manually and just use the default.  The default
for Windows is $APPDATA/Cabal.  Where that ends up depends on your
version of Windows.  On Windows "--user" is also the default.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Dmitri O.Kondratiev <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Ryan Yates <fryguybob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There is a nice table in the cabal docs that explains how prefix gets
>> used:
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>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/Cabal/builders.html#simple-paths
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>> For Vista and above C:\Documents and settings\myusername\ is
>> C:\Users\myusername.  The equivalent to $HOME on Windows would be
>> $USERPROFILE but the syntax of expanding an environment variable is
>> going to depend on the shell you are using:
>>
>> cmd window:  cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user
>> PowerShell:  cabal install --prefix=${env:USERPROFILE} --user
>> msys window:  cabal install --prefix=$USERPROFILE --user
>>
>> Note that msys does define $HOME and it is a different physical path
>> than $USERPROFILE.
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> Ryan, thanks!
> This win32 $HOME story is clear now.
> And why not just use:
> "cabal install"
> instead of:
> "cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user"
> for win32 platform?
> Where in this case "cabal install" root will be?
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