[Haskell-cafe] Current state-of-the-art in getting a dev env set up (windows 8)

[Michal Antkiewicz]

This is a question I am often asking myself as well. Here are a few points:

1. definitely install MSYS2
see links here http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Windows

2. I used Sublime Text 2 as well, switched to 3 now and it works great so
far

3. Yes, installing the dev tools is a pain on Windows. It almost never just
works. I install dev tools into the user space and always use sandboxes for
projects. Currently I managed to install the following versions. You have
to use these specific versions.

aeson-0.7.0.6
ghc-mod-4.1.6
haddock-2.14.3
haskell-docs-4.2.2
haskell-src-exts-1.15.0.1
hasktags-0.69.0
hlint-1.9.4

I could never get codex to work on Windows with Haskell Platform.

4. I also recommend ghc-vis package, which only today I managed to
successfully install:
http://felsin9.de/nnis/ghc-vis/installing-windows/
-- do not use `--enable-shared` in the last command

ghc-heap-view-0.5.3
ghc-vis-0.7.2.5

5. with hdevtools, you have to get the windows fork and pull one of the
branches which makes it work with GHC-7.8.3 (I forgot exactly which one I
pulled from). The fork is not maintained. I am hoping that `ghc-modi` will
eventually replace `hdevtools` for SublimeHaskell.

Hope that helps to get you going. On Linux everything just works when you
get GHC and cabal-install.

Cheers,
Michal

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org>
wrote:

> What is the current advice for getting a haskell dev env set up on
> windows? There's a lot of options, and it can be hard to quickly determine
> which are current and which are deprecated/bit-rotted.
>
> For example, apparently cabal sandbox is preferred over cabal-dev these
> days.
>
> I've read:
> http://onoffswitch.net/started-haskell/
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304614/haskell-on-windows-setup
> http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2013-08-20-Cabal-sandbox.html
> http://bob.ippoli.to/archives/2013/01/11/getting-started-with-haskell/
>
>
> I've installed the latest haskell platform (2014.2), and am using Sublime
> Text 2 as my editor. SublimeHaskell is installed, but apparently it needs
> aeson, haskell-src-ext, and haddock. cabal install aeson indicates that it
> will break unordered-containers-0.2.4.0 and case-insensitive-1.1.0.3, so I
> must use --force-reinstalls to get it. I'm doing this in a sandbox, in case
> it is a terrible idea.
>
> https://github.com/SublimeHaskell/SublimeHaskell
>
> Not yet sure how I'm going to get the sandbox install of these tools to
> work with SublimeHaskell. Presumably some PATH magic?
>
> hdevtools looks cool and seems like it can be used from SublimeHaskell,
> although a windows install is from a fork. Will install ghc-mod too.
>
> What else am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
>
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