On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 14:38:33 +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
In principle, the same advice applies for Windows users, with more details hopefully to follow on how the C libz in a GHC-accesible location. Details to follow.
As promised, here are the details for installing darcs using our old internal binding to libz on Windows. Again, the instructions are either to cabal configure -f -external-zlib (Or to wait for darcs 2.1.2.3 to appear on hackage) Thanks to Salvatore Insalaco, our Windows Czar! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There're two zlib versions for Windows: one compiled with ccall convention, and one with stdcall convention. We need the ccall one, at the address: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm The other one will *appear* to work, but darcs will segfault as soon as the first call to zlib is made. This is the step-by-step howto: 1) Download the binary from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/zlib-bin-zip.php and unzip it. 2) Copy the zlib1.dll file in bin directory in ghc's gcc-lib directory, and then rename it libz.dll. 3a) Copy the zlib1.dll file in c:\windows directory, WITHOUT renaming it. OR 3b) If you don't want to pollute your windows directory, just copy it in whatever directory is in the search PATH, or in the one you'll place darcs.exe binary. That's all. The cabal install will then just work. By the way: that's similar to the how-to for making curl work. Maybe we can update the windows building instructions providing a "pre-install" instructions to make cabal install darcs just work. -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9