There is a nice table in the cabal docs that explains how prefix gets used:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/Cabal/builders.html#simple-paths
For Vista and above C:\Documents and settings\myusername\ is
C:\Users\myusername. The equivalent to $HOME on Windows would be
$USERPROFILE but the syntax of expanding an environment variable is
going to depend on the shell you are using:
cmd window: cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user
PowerShell: cabal install --prefix=${env:USERPROFILE} --user
msys window: cabal install --prefix=$USERPROFILE --user
Note that msys does define $HOME and it is a different physical path
than $USERPROFILE.
Ryan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Dmitri O.Kondratiev
On win32 "cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user" fails:
cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user Resolving dependencies... Configuring split-0.1.4... cabal: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: $HOME cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: split-0.1.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1
What is the right equivalent of "cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user" on Win32?
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