curl package broken in Windows
When I do "cabal install curl" in Windows, a missing cygwin dll message pops up, and packages that depend on curl, like shpider, fail to install. Specs: * cabal-install 0.14.0 * Cabal 1.14.0 * GHC 7.4.2 * Haskell Platform 2012 * Windows 7 Proffesional x64 -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
Isn't Curl a C library (with a Haskell binding)? For Haskell bindings the best environment on Windows is usually MinGW / MSys, but your error suggests you should be building from Cygwin in this case.
I've just checked Hackage - the "Curl" package (haskell) is a binding
to libcurl (c library).
It looks like MinGW / MSys is the best option - there are some notes
are written by Sigbjorn Finne (who wrote the Haskell binding) although
they are now quite old:
http://haskell.forkio.com/Home/curl-win32
It looks like Sigbjorn, was cross compiling a MinGW build for libcurl
from Cygwin, instead I'd build under a proper installation of MinGW /
MSys. The bits of MinGW that are distributed with GHC aren't
sufficient for this - you will need a proper installing of MinGW /
MSys.
On 9 November 2012 20:13, Stephen Tetley
Isn't Curl a C library (with a Haskell binding)?
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