I use a number of different programming languages, so I have Haskell Platform, Strawberry Perl, Node.js, RVM, and Git Bash installed at the same time.

I've noticed that compiling packages with C dependencies (e.g. using node-gyp during "npm install node-mhash", or doing "cpan install PAR::Packer") often crashes during the build process with a popup:

The procedure entry point __gxx_personality_sj0 could not be located in the dynamic link library libstdc++-6.dll.

As Roderich Schupp points out, it appears that the different libstdc++-6.dll's are interfering with one another. Haskell Platform comes with one, Vagrant comes with one, GIMP comes with one, MinGW comes with one, and Strawberry Perl comes with two! Objdump seems to indicate that Haskell Platform's DLL is the one to blame.

$ find /c/ -name libstdc++-6.dll 2>/dev/null
/c/DevKit/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/Program Files/GIMP 2/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/Program Files/Haskell Platform/2012.4.0.0/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/strawberry/c/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/strawberry/perl/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/vagrant/vagrant/embedded/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll

$ objdump -ax /c/DevKit/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3896] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/Program\ Files/GIMP\ 2/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3499] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/Program\ Files/Haskell\ Platform/2012.4.0.0/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3401] __gxx_personality_v0
$ objdump -ax /c/strawberry/c/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3510] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/strawberry/perl/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3510] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/vagrant/vagrant/embedded/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3896] __gxx_personality_sj0

Would updating Haskell Platform's libstdc++-6.dll fix this issue? Is there some way to cordon Haskell Platform off from the rest of the system, while still making ghc.exe and friends available on PATH?

Here are my system specs, I figure they're highly relevant.

$ specs haskell perl node ruby git os

Specs:

specs 0.4

https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme

cabal --version

cabal-install version 0.14.0

using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library

ghc --version

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2

ghc-pkg field haskell-platform version

version: 2012.4.0.0

cpan --version

c:\strawberry\perl\bin/cpan version 1.5902 calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.07 [paranoid]),

running under Perl version 5.16.2.

[Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.

See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]

Nothing to install!

perl --version

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the

GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on

this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the

Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

npm --version

1.2.17

node --version

v0.10.3

bundle --version

Bundler version 1.3.2

gem --version

2.0.3

ruby --version

ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15) [i386-mingw32]

git --version

git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0

systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version"

OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional

OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker