Thanks to both Stephen Tetley and Henk-Jan van Tuyl for pointing them out those pages on installing curl and, in general, Unixy software, on Windows. Both looked rather cryptic to me also, although I did not try them out. I will try my hand at building a Windows binary for Sifflet and making it available for folks to download. I have recently acquired a Windows 7 system, partly for this very purpose. It's a guest host under Linux/KVM, and I think it's 32-bit Windows so it'll be a 32-bit binary, although my hardware is x86_64. Will that be okay? I haven't done *anything* with Haskell on Windows yet! So the first step will be installing the Haskell Platform, which I hope will go smoothly, but the rest might take some time, if I succeed at all. Other options seem to be: - Asking for curl and hxt to be included in the Haskell Platform - Asking the author of hxt to split it into parts that do and do not depend on curl. But either of these would also probably take some time, if they are approved at all. So, don't hold your breath, Andrew, but I'll try. * http://haskell.forkio.com/Home/curl-win32 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Windows#Tools_for_compilation Greg On 2010-Aug-20, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
Curl compiles without problems on my Windows XP system. There is a HaskellWiki page [0] that describes how to compile packages with Unix scripts on Windows systems.
I did once try setting up MinGW and MSYS, just to see if I could make it work. But after many, many hours of trying to comprehend the terse documentation, I finally gave up. It's just too hard to get it to work. (I never even got as far as *trying* to build anything; I just couldn't install the tools.)
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