Hello Andrew,
...yep, configure fails because it can't find "sh". (Again.)
This error can safely be ignored on windows.
I'm rather loathed to install a Unix emulator just so I can install things from Hackage.
cygwin is not required to build hsSDL on windows.
By the way, it turns out that SDL at least comes with a little text file explaining how to build it on Windows. (I overlooked this the first time.) Sadly, after following the instructions I still can't build it. The changes it told me to make didn't seem to have any effect. (And manually editing configuration files and C headers isn't my idea of a good time anyway...)
What error are you getting? The next version of hsSDL (or current darcs) will not require editing of C headers. Editing the cabal config file is necessary so that the SDL include files and libs can be found.
Out of curiosity, is there a reason I'm trying to compile the code myself in the first place? Is it just because that's "the Unix way", or is there some deep reason why we can't just download prebuilt binaries?
I am in favour of the idea of providing prebuilt binaries. Do you think something like the gtk2hs windows installer would be good? Thanks, Bit