Hi,<div><br></div><div>you do need msys or cygwin for &quot;cabal install&quot;ing network</div><div>msys at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/msys-1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe/download">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/msys-1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe/download</a></div>
<div>You will then have to follow the instructions at <a href="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS">http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS</a>. Please make sure that it uses ghc&#39;s mingw</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>Hemanth K</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matias Hernandez <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mhernand@gmail.com">mhernand@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Alberto.<br><br>Do we need cygwin to install your compiled package? I thought not (I&#39;m not very versed on this) but when I tried &quot;cabal install network&quot; after extracting it I got:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Configuring network-2.3.0.11...</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">cabal: The package has a &#39;./configure&#39; script. This requires a Unix</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin.</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">network-2.3.0.11 failed during the configure step. The exception was:</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">ExitFailure 1</span><br><br>Best regards, and thanks for any help!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>- Matias<br></font></span><br>_______________________________________________<br>

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