Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

I tried to compile base-4.0.0.0 (on Windows XP) as follows: [...]\base\4.0.0.0>runhaskell Setup configure <command line>: module `Prelude' is not loaded It seems that Base needs another way to compile, how?

AFAIK base is shipped with GHC, and cannot be compiled separately. GHC 6.10.1 ships with base-4.0.0.0, later versions in the 6.10.x series may have a somewhat later version. Regards, -- Jochem Berndsen | jochem@functor.nl GPG: 0xE6FABFAB