cabal install sdl

Resolving dependencies...

Downloading SDL-0.5.4...

[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPSDL-0.5.4\SDL-0.5.4\Setup.lhs, C:\Users\Peter

\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPSDL-0.5.4\SDL-0.5.4\dist\setup\Main.o )

C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPSDL-0.5.4\SDL-0.5.4\Setup.lhs:2:2:

    Warning: In the use of `defaultUserHooks'

             (imported from Distribution.Simple):

             Deprecated: "Use simpleUserHooks or autoconfUserHooks, unless you need Cabal-1.2

             compatibility in which case you must stick with defaultUserHooks"

Linking C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPSDL-0.5.4\SDL-0.5.4\dist\setup\setup.exe ...

Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.

Configuring SDL-0.5.4...

setup.exe: sh: runGenProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory)

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

SDL-0.5.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:

exit: ExitFailure 1

To build this I guess I would have to install MinGW and MSYS (which is already insanely hard to unzip all the latest development stuff in the right places and configure it correctly, especially for a windows user), and then do all kinds of tricky things that are obvious for unix people but alien for dummy windows users like me :)

Anyway, support for Windows users gets better each year, which is great!