#177: Include-dirs, extra-lib-dirs with spaces doesn't work under Windows ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: 1.2.2.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.6 Platform: Windows | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Trying to build the HDBC-PostGreSQL database driver[1] revealed some poor handling of pathames under Windows. The package requires that the paths to postgre header and libraries files be added to the .cabal file. My initial attempt was the obvious: {{{ include-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server, . extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server }}} However, the package would not build. The include files "pg_config.h" and some others were not found. Using single or double quotes did not help. Finally, I moved the installation to "C:\pgsql" and updated the .cabal file: {{{ include-dirs: C:\pgsql\include, C:\pgsql\include\server, . extra-lib-dirs: C:\pgsql\lib }}} And the package built. It seems the spaces in the first path caused the problem. For reference, this it the configure output on my machine: {{{ Configuring HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0... configure: Dependency base-any: using base-2.1.1 configure: Dependency mtl-any: using mtl-1.0.1 configure: Dependency HDBC>=1.0.0: using HDBC-1.0.1 configure: Dependency parsec-any: using parsec-2.0 configure: Using install prefix: C:\Program Files configure: Binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin configure: Libraries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\HDBC- postgresql-1.0.1.0\ghc-6.6.1 configure: Private binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\HDBC- postgresql-1.0.1.0 configure: Data files installed in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\HDBC- postgresql-1.0.1.0 configure: Using compiler: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ghc.exe configure: Compiler flavor: GHC configure: Compiler version: 6.6.1 configure: Using package tool: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ghc-pkg.exe configure: Using ar found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ar.exe configure: Using haddock found on system at: C:\haddock\haddock-0.8\haddock.exe configure: No pfesetup found configure: Using ranlib found on system at: c:\MinGW\bin\ranlib.exe configure: Using runghc found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\runghc.exe configure: Using runhugs found on system at: C:\Program Files\WinHugs\runhugs.exe configure: No happy found configure: No alex found configure: Using hsc2hs: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\hsc2hs.exe configure: No c2hs found configure: No cpphs found configure: No greencard found }}} Feel free to email me at jgbailey AT gmail DOT com for more info. [1] Version 1.0.1.0 available at http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin /hackage-scripts/package/HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0. HDBC is also required. I used 1.0.1, available at http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage- scripts/package/HDBC-1.0.1. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/177 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects