On 11 November 2010 11:23, Nils Schweinsberg
Configuring pcre-light-0.4... cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing C library: pcre
On 11 November 2010 12:41, Stephen Tetley
Do you have the headers installed as well as the dlls?
With this error message, it really is the C libs. If cabal cannot find the headers then it says so explicitly. Cabal does the check by making a trivial .c program and linking it with (approximately): gcc main.o -lpcre If that fails then cabal declares that it cannot find the C lib. It's possible that the lib is present but that there is some other linking error, it's a bit tricky to distinguish without looking at the error messages from ld.exe. So the first thing to try is the above test, or run cabal configure -v3 and see what error message ld reports. Duncan