I'm pretty sure you don't need mingw and all that. I've bootstrapped
cabal-install on windows a few times now without needing anything more than
ghc (though I haven't done 6.12 yet so I might be totally off base here...)
You can't use the nice bootstrap script, but you can download and build the
dependencies manually (and IIRC there are about 5 or so that don't come
included). Which is still a royal pain, but hopefully easier than all that
other messiness.
- Job
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Verswyvelen
Using GHC 6.12.1 on Windows currently is hard, since one must compile the latest version of cabal-install, which is a nightmare to do for a typical windows user (install mingw, msys, utils like wget, download correct package from hackage, compile them in correct order, etc etc)
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