[Haskell-cafe] building "encoding" on Windows?

I'm trying to help a non-Haskell person build wyvern (shameless plug in case you like go: http://dmwit.com/wyvern), but (s)he's having trouble building the "encoding" library. Has any Windows person done it successfully or is willing to try it? I tried contacting the "encoding" maintainer a few days ago, but haven't heard back. Thanks! ~d P.S. I thought it might just be a missing library, but the encoding library itself comes with "system_encoding.h". ----- Forwarded message from wilemien@googlemail.com ----- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:36:43 +0000 From: Willemien Subject: Re: hi from willemien To: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 AM, wrote:

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Tried cabal install sgf error  some packages failed to install encoding-0.6.3 failed during the configure step

Ah, yes! I knew about this problem, and totally forgot. The "encoding" package uses some tools, but can't depend on them properly (bad!). Try this (capitalization matters):

cabal install HaXml cabal install sgf

Does that work? I'll update the website shortly. ~d

Sorry no cabal install HaXml goes well (but takes longer than 2 minutes) Cabal install sgf not more specific: last lines are Configuring encoding-0.6.3... Setup.exe Missing dependency on foreign library: * Missing Header file: System_encoding.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 Allready 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. CABAL: Error: some packages failed to install: encoding-0.6.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1 sgf-0.1.1 depends on encoding 0.6.3 which faild to install. Hope you can solve it Willemien ----- End forwarded message -----