Re: [Haskell-cafe] HP/Cygwin and Curl

Hi Chris HP can be used fine with Cygwin. Where a library in the HP is a binding to a C library, the HP supplies the relevant C library as an *.a file, e.g libglu32.a and libglut32.a for OpenGL. Pure Haskell libraries will install fine under Cygwin as well. Bindings to additional C libraries like Curl are problematic, for one thing Cygwin static libraries have a different object format to MinGW ones. With effort and knowledge, FFI libraries/bindings can be made to work with Cygwin but I don't think anyone is looking at this systematically (and documenting their methods). Practically speaking using MinGW / MSYS to build and install bindings is the solution. Best wishes Stephen