On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I haven't seen similar problems on Linux. (But I don't use Linux very often.) About the worst problem there was Gtk2hs being confused about some Autoconfig stuff or something...
Many packages assume you have the msys / mingw stuff installed on Windows (if they work at all; those of us who don't develop on Windows wouldn't really know how to go about being compatible). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH