On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Stephen Tetley
Andrew, I was going to chastise you for being the only Windows developer who has problems with MinGW / MSYS and spreading that unpleasant internet commodity "FUD". However, I've just gone back to mingw.org and its gone from "somewhat confusing" circa the last time I installed (Christmas 2009) to "frankly abysmal". So while is was easy to install MinGW / MSys a year ago I'll willing concede that it is difficult now.
Agreed. I tried to set up an msys development environment to compile chicken scheme a couple of weeks ago, and, quite frankly, gave up. I settled for installing mingw and putting the mingw bin directory first in my cygwin path. This worked very well indeed, even though it isn't an officially supported chicken build environment, so it's worth experimenting with for haskell as well. (Note that it needs a reboot of windows after setting up the cygwin environment variables; I never figured out why). martin