23 Oct
2008
23 Oct
'08
1:51 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Austin Seipp
Windows will not let you modify/delete binaries if they're running as a process, and it won't let you delete .DLL files that're in use by applications either (mapped to shared memory, that is.) So cabal install cannot overwrite the cabal.exe binary after it builds it, because it's already running.
looks like i just needed to fix my paths. I had the default ghc bin directory before the directory where cabal installs its binaries. But after i fixed that, i ran into the windows problem, which i fixed by just copying the binary to a temporary location.