#182: Cabal can't find ld.exe on 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 | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- On windows, cabal cannot find ld.exe: D:\private\haskell\MaybeT-0.1.0>runghc Setup.hs configure -v3 Configuring MaybeT-0.1.0... Creating dist (and its parents) C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.1\bin\ghc.exe --numeric-version looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.1\bin found package tool in C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.1\bin\ghc-pkg.exe C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.1\bin\ghc-pkg.exe --version Setup.hs: ld is required but it could not be found. On windows, installator of ghc adds only 'ghc\bin' directory to $PATH but ld.exe (as well as other gcc tools) is to be found in 'ghc\gcc-lib'. if one adds 'ghc\gcc-lib' to $PATH manually then everything works. Refer to this thread on haskell-cafe: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail /haskell-cafe/2007-November/034862.html GHC version 6.8.1 (such an entry in the pull down menu of this bug report does not exist!) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/182 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects