On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 13:51 +1100, Tim Docker wrote:
Well I'd say none of the packages I've tried, build out of the box...
I'm not a windows developer, but....
Is it actually reasonable to expect any cabal packages that depend on external c libraries and headers to build out of the box on windows? How can cabal find out where those files are, without requiring a config file to be edited?
It's usually worse than that. The most likely situation is that the C library and header files are not even installed. This is a big problem for all packages that wrap C libs. Sometimes the C code is sufficiently simple that one can just bundle it. My zlib and bzlib packages on hackage do that and that's the only reason they work on Windows. This is not a realistic solution for most other binding packages. Duncan