#325: SHGetFolderPath requiered to configure cabal 1.4 ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): The README file suggests: {{{ ghc --make Setup ./Setup configure --user ./Setup build ./Setup install }}} The reason it imports SHGetFolderPath is to find the location of the `Program Files` directory. Unfortunately that is not provided by either System.Directory or anything in the Win32 binding package so we have to directly FFI import that ourselves. Unfortunately ghci does not know to link in the appropriate dll (and there's no automatic way for us to tell it) so Cabal will not work in ghci by default. You can either compile it (because gcc does link in the lib by default) or add something like `-lshell32` when invoking `ghci`/`runghc`. So I don't see any obvious solutions at the moment. If the Win32 or directory package provided what we need then that'd be a great improvement. Unless someone can see a solution I'm missing I'll have to mark this bug 'wontfix'. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/325#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects