Ah, forgot to add that you have to fix the PATH. By default, the platform
installer creates a user variable PATH, which windows 8 automatically
appends at the end of the system PATH. This way doing `cabal install
cabal-install` will update cabal in user space but the platform one will
always be used. So you must "prepend" the path to
`c:\users\....\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin` at the beginning of the system
PATH to give user space executables priority over platform and global
executables.
In MSYS, get friendly with `hash -r` command when you fiddle with PATHs.
Michal
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Michal Antkiewicz wrote: This is a question I am often asking myself as well. Here are a few points: 1. definitely install MSYS2
see links here http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Windows 2. I used Sublime Text 2 as well, switched to 3 now and it works great so
far 3. Yes, installing the dev tools is a pain on Windows. It almost never
just works. I install dev tools into the user space and always use
sandboxes for projects. Currently I managed to install the following
versions. You have to use these specific versions. aeson-0.7.0.6
ghc-mod-4.1.6
haddock-2.14.3
haskell-docs-4.2.2
haskell-src-exts-1.15.0.1
hasktags-0.69.0
hlint-1.9.4 I could never get codex to work on Windows with Haskell Platform. 4. I also recommend ghc-vis package, which only today I managed to
successfully install:
http://felsin9.de/nnis/ghc-vis/installing-windows/
-- do not use `--enable-shared` in the last command ghc-heap-view-0.5.3
ghc-vis-0.7.2.5 5. with hdevtools, you have to get the windows fork and pull one of the
branches which makes it work with GHC-7.8.3 (I forgot exactly which one I
pulled from). The fork is not maintained. I am hoping that `ghc-modi` will
eventually replace `hdevtools` for SublimeHaskell. Hope that helps to get you going. On Linux everything just works when you
get GHC and cabal-install. Cheers,
Michal On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Alistair Bayley What is the current advice for getting a haskell dev env set up on
windows? There's a lot of options, and it can be hard to quickly determine
which are current and which are deprecated/bit-rotted. For example, apparently cabal sandbox is preferred over cabal-dev these
days. I've read:
http://onoffswitch.net/started-haskell/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304614/haskell-on-windows-setup
http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2013-08-20-Cabal-sandbox.html
http://bob.ippoli.to/archives/2013/01/11/getting-started-with-haskell/ I've installed the latest haskell platform (2014.2), and am using Sublime
Text 2 as my editor. SublimeHaskell is installed, but apparently it needs
aeson, haskell-src-ext, and haddock. cabal install aeson indicates that it
will break unordered-containers-0.2.4.0 and case-insensitive-1.1.0.3, so I
must use --force-reinstalls to get it. I'm doing this in a sandbox, in case
it is a terrible idea. https://github.com/SublimeHaskell/SublimeHaskell Not yet sure how I'm going to get the sandbox install of these tools to
work with SublimeHaskell. Presumably some PATH magic? hdevtools looks cool and seems like it can be used from SublimeHaskell,
although a windows install is from a fork. Will install ghc-mod too. What else am I missing? Thanks,
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