Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing regex-pcre (revisited)

11 Dec 2011


      On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Tetley
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On 11 December 2011 04:56, Asokan Pichai  wrote:
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM, MJ Williams
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Hi guys,
I understand there's a UNIX-like environment that one can install on Windows
CYGWIN?
No - for binding to C libraries you want to use MinGW / MSYS.
AFAIK MingW is intended to develop WIn32 apps on a Linux platform.
The OP's question is for a Unix-like environment on Windows; which
is Cygwin.
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The reason for this is basically that everyone else does. Linking
static libraries is a bit different internally to Cygwin and it does
not seem to "just work" whereas it usually does on MinGW provided you
have the C library already working.
I do not understand this part.

Asokan