Hi, you need to install these deps. manually. This might be of help:

https://github.com/23Skidoo/haskell-platform-windows

It's also good to use MinGW and MSYS. MinGW comes with the platform. MSYS currently doesn't but it should too. You can install them yourself, if you don't have the platform.

Regarding third-party libraries, I only have experience with `glpk-hs` package which is a wrapper around the GLPK solver. It took me a lot of time to get this to work but in general, try to get a binary build for windows (for GLPK, there's a Winglpk on sourceforge) and then you use `--extra-include-dirs=` and `--extra-lib-dirs=` so specify the locations of the library files.

In my case, I use a Makefile for this, which accepts a $(glpk) argument with the install location of Winglpk.

```
GPLK_LIBS_INCLUDES := --extra-include-dirs=$(glpk)/src --extra-include-dirs=$(glpk)/src/amd --extra-include-dirs=$(glpk)/src/colamd --extra-include-dirs=$(glpk)/src/minisat --extra-include-dirs=$(glpk)/src/zlib --extra-lib-dirs=$(glpk)/w32
```

Then I call cabal like this

`cabal install --only-dependencies $(GPLK_LIBS_INCLUDES)`

Finally, (just in case...), with MSYS you give paths on windows like this, for example, `/c/lib/glpk-4.51`.

Hope that helps,

Michal

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Cédric Chantepie <chantepie@altern.org> wrote:

Hi,

Try to setup GHC 7.8.2 & cabal 1.8 on Windows (7/64bits), using binary distributions from haskell.org I get error when I try to install glib package using cabal :

cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
* Missing (or bad) header file: primitive-memops.h
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
--extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.
Failed to install primitive-0.5.2.1
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

Command cabal install primitive raise the same error.

I have tried either within cygwin or from plain cmd.

Thanks for any hint, best.
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