Windows Install Issues for erf (and statistics)

[Lennart Augustsson]

I complained about the very same thing, I think there's even a ghc bug
report about it.
It's something about how symbols are looked up and loaded in ghci.
I've not been able to come up with a workaround either.

  -- Lennart

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dominic Steinitz <dominic at steinitz.org> wrote:
> The package statistics uses the package erf. Doing cabal install statistics
> works fine but when I try to use anything I get:
>
>> Loading package syb ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package base-3.0.3.0 ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package erf-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... <interactive>:
>> C:\Program Files\Haskell\erf-1.0.0.0\ghc-6.10.1\HSerf-1.0.0.0.o: unknown
>> symbol
>> `_erfc'
>> : unable to load package `erf-1.0.0.0'
>
> I assume that erf is looking for some C functions which are available on
> linux but not windows.
>
> I'm not sure what the solution is. Should cabal complain? Should there be
> some documentation on the erf homepage telling windows users what to do? Or
> at least that it doesn't work on windows?
>
> Dominic.
>
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