[Haskell-cafe] Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows

[Gershom B]

You can also just install the Haskell Platform on Windows. It works just fine! And it comes with a prebuilt network package too.

These days, it also comes with MSYS2. However, it does not yet come with a “path switcher” script as MinGHC did. So if you want to _reinstall_ network or the like, you need to first add the appropriate msys directories to your path for the duration of the build.

These days, as far as I’m concerned, the only obstacle to using the platform on windows is if you _really_ don’t want any platform packages installed in your global package repo. And with the next release of the platform, that won’t be an issue either...

Cheers,
Gershom


On December 23, 2015 at 11:23:09 AM, mantkiew at gsd.uwaterloo.ca (mantkiew at gsd.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> There is. Just manually install MSYS2, ghc, and cabal. Set up the paths and that's it.  
> Stack does all that for you.
>  
> ‎Michał
>  
> Original Message
> From: Lian Hung Hon
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:06 AM
> To: Adam Bergmark
> Cc: haskell-cafe
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows
>  
> There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack?
>  
> On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark" wrote:
> In short, use stack. Detailed here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html  
>  
> - Adam
>  
>  
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon wrote:
> Dear Haskellers,
>  
> How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package?  
> Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Hon
>  
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