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

[Lian Hung Hon]

Gee, thanks everyone for the feedback. Stack will do for now, I didn't
realise I can run ghci from outside a project directory using stack exec
ghci. The platform is quite large, and I'm on a costly metered network
connection.

Cheers,
Hon
On 24 Dec 2015 09:59, "Gershom B" <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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