On 7-nov-2007, at 17:43, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Arthur,
The correct steps to take are:
1) install GHC from the windows installer - trivial 2) install Gtk2hs from the windows installer
Unfortunately Gtk2hs hasn't been updated to work with GHC 6.8.1, so step 2 will fail. The person who is going to do this is Duncan. He usually breaks down and does this once people start complaining on the mailing list.
- Installed MinGW 5.1.3
Generally, if you have to install MinGW you can pretty much guarantee that something somewhere is going to go wrong - not enough people test this route to make it reliable.
Actually, the MinGW/MSYS thing was also necessary for another package that I needed, plus, the GTK2Hs build instructions explicitly state that you need it. Oh, and I *definitely* liked the vim and bash that I got from it. No cmd.exe and it's odd syntax for me! :)
Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse.
But it shouldn't. Really it shouldn't. Even though Windows is not my preferred platform, it is by no means different enough to warrant such additional complexity. Plus, GHC is developed at Microsoft, and the currently most featureful Haskell IDE is on Windows... With kind regards, Arthur. (Who will surely do more Windows development with Haskell soonish) -- /\ / | arthurvl@cs.uu.nl | Work like you don't need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching