On 17 November 2010 15:47, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:40 +0100, Michael Litchard wrote:

I think I may have borked things good using cygwin. I want to remove

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it and do a clean install of haskell platform w/out cygwin. What do I need to do to make sure all configuration files have been removed?

There are not many Cygwin experts here, I think, but it seems the answer can be found at: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

AFAICT Just don't use Cygwin. Install Windows Haskell from the Haskell.org web site download. Then run from Windows command line. You may have to put the haskell bin directory on the Windows PATH. Although I think it does this itself on instillation. Aaron

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:38:54 +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote:

One caveat is that if you want to build Haskell bindings to C libraries, MinGW+MSys is preferable to Cygwin. Cygwin shared libraries depend on the cygwin.dll which generally isn't what you want for bindings.

If you use MinGW, your compiled program depends on mingwm10.dll (depending on the version of MinGW). Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html --

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:45:54 +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 18 November 2010 00:37, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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If you use MinGW, your compiled program depends on mingwm10.dll (depending on the version of MinGW).

Is this true in general or only when you have bindings pulling it in? The MinGW site and other places found in a search indicate that this lib is only necessary for C++ exception handling.

I've probably only ever delivered compiled Windows Haskell apps that had no FFI bindings so I haven't noticed either way.

I don't know; I installed an application that used wxHaskell on a different computer and got a message about missing the mingwm10.dll Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html --

Hi Michael, On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Michael Litchard wrote:

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Michael Litchard wrote:

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I think I may have borked things good using cygwin. I want to remove it and do a clean install of haskell platform w/out cygwin. What do I need to do to make sure all configuration files have been removed?

Hmm, I wasn't precise enough in my question. My concern is there are configuration files related to the windows haskell-platform install that I don't know about , that need to be removed prior to doing a clean install. Or is it just a matter of doing a standard windows uninstall, will that take care of things?

I'm no Windows expert, but I think by default all packages you install locally go under: /Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/cabal /Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/ghc So you if you didn't install things globally, you may not need to reinstall the Haskell Platform. You just move those directories and they will be recreated. One of the first things I do after installing GHC is: $ ghc-pkg check to make sure things look sane. If they don't it will tell you to run: $ ghc-pkg recache Is this what you're asking? Paulo