It appears that The Haskell Platform includes libglut32.a and other important libs, so it is self-contained, provided users can work with the version of ghc that is provided: currently 7.6.3 under Windows. In particular, 'cabal install glut' works fine with the default version of ghc. But if I try using ghc-7.8.2 I get: Configuring GLUT-2.5.1.1... cabal: Missing dependencies on a foreign library: * Missing C library: glut32 ... All of the following do not change the result: 1. Adding --extra-lib-dirs=c:\glut-3.7.6-bin to the command line. 2. Using freeglut instead of glut 3. Copying libglut.a from The Haskell Package mingw/lib directory to c:\ghc-3.8.2\mingw\lib (dangerous because I am mixing architectures here). How does cabal decide that the C library glut32 is missing? Where is it looking? Why doesn't it look in the places I specify? Thanks, Dominick