Hi!
It needs some shell, if you install MSYS from mingw and do the cabal install from there it will work just fine.
Here is the download for MSYS:
// Niklas L.
From: "gladstein@gladstein.com" <gladstein@gladstein.com>
To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 9:11:00 PM
Subject: [Haskell-cafe] installing Network on windows
I need some advice on the most straightforward way to install the Network package on Windows. I can install Cywgin if that's what it takes. Thanks in advance.
cabal install network
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring network-2.2.1.7...
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
network-2.2.1.7 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
sh: runGenProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory)