[Haskell-cafe] Re: Installing Haskell on Windows 7

Hi Stephen Tetley writes:

Network installed for me without a hitch via MinGW for 6.12.1 (via the old skool process of runhaskell Setup.hs ...). MinGW becomes all but essential once you start installing libraries that are bindings to C libraries - unfortunately it can be hard to tell if a library is a binding or depends on a binding. Also some Haskell libraries do use C but only rely on the standard C libraries - as GHC ships with a gcc executable from MinGW usually these libs will install transparently.

Okay, then I'll do that. I suppose the mingw that GHC ships is an abridged one, so that setting some environment variables does not suffice? Thanks Thomas