mingw (2.0.x) supplies a libreadline.a, but no header files to go with it, which is why the readline package isn't being built (and shipped.) Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release (of mingw.) You can either go the route you suggest, or pick up a mingw port of readline (there's a couple kicking about) and just compile up the readline package. hth --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ganesh Sittampalam" <Ganesh.Sittampalam@comlab.ox.ac.uk> To: <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 09:45 Subject: readline package in GHC 6.0.1 on Windows

Hi,

I notice that the readline package is missing from the Windows MSI build of GHC 6.0.1. Is this deliberate and/or a fundamental limitation of the Windows platform? Would I have to/be able to make my own Cygwin-based build to get it?

Cheers,

Ganesh