Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows

Dear Haskellers, How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead. Sincerely, Hon

In short, use stack. Detailed here:
http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html
- Adam
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon
Dear Haskellers,
How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
Sincerely, Hon
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There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack?
On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark"
In short, use stack. Detailed here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html
- Adam
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon
wrote: Dear Haskellers,
How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
Sincerely, Hon
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There is. Just manually install MSYS2, ghc, and cabal. Set up the paths and that's it. Stack does all that for you.
Michał
Original Message
From: Lian Hung Hon
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:06 AM
To: Adam Bergmark
Cc: haskell-cafe
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows
There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack?
On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark"

You can also just install the Haskell Platform on Windows. It works just fine! And it comes with a prebuilt network package too. These days, it also comes with MSYS2. However, it does not yet come with a “path switcher” script as MinGHC did. So if you want to _reinstall_ network or the like, you need to first add the appropriate msys directories to your path for the duration of the build. These days, as far as I’m concerned, the only obstacle to using the platform on windows is if you _really_ don’t want any platform packages installed in your global package repo. And with the next release of the platform, that won’t be an issue either... Cheers, Gershom On December 23, 2015 at 11:23:09 AM, mantkiew@gsd.uwaterloo.ca (mantkiew@gsd.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
There is. Just manually install MSYS2, ghc, and cabal. Set up the paths and that's it. Stack does all that for you.
Michał
Original Message From: Lian Hung Hon Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:06 AM To: Adam Bergmark Cc: haskell-cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows
There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack?
On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark" wrote: In short, use stack. Detailed here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html
- Adam
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon wrote: Dear Haskellers,
How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
Sincerely, Hon
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Gee, thanks everyone for the feedback. Stack will do for now, I didn't
realise I can run ghci from outside a project directory using stack exec
ghci. The platform is quite large, and I'm on a costly metered network
connection.
Cheers,
Hon
On 24 Dec 2015 09:59, "Gershom B"
You can also just install the Haskell Platform on Windows. It works just fine! And it comes with a prebuilt network package too.
These days, it also comes with MSYS2. However, it does not yet come with a “path switcher” script as MinGHC did. So if you want to _reinstall_ network or the like, you need to first add the appropriate msys directories to your path for the duration of the build.
These days, as far as I’m concerned, the only obstacle to using the platform on windows is if you _really_ don’t want any platform packages installed in your global package repo. And with the next release of the platform, that won’t be an issue either...
Cheers, Gershom
On December 23, 2015 at 11:23:09 AM, mantkiew@gsd.uwaterloo.ca ( mantkiew@gsd.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
There is. Just manually install MSYS2, ghc, and cabal. Set up the paths and that's it. Stack does all that for you.
Michał
Original Message From: Lian Hung Hon Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:06 AM To: Adam Bergmark Cc: haskell-cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation instructions for ghc 7-10-3 on Windows
There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack?
On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark" wrote: In short, use stack. Detailed here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html
- Adam
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon wrote: Dear Haskellers,
How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
Sincerely, Hon
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:29 AM Lian Hung Hon hon.lianhung@gmail.com http://mailto:hon.lianhung@gmail.com wrote: Gee, thanks everyone for the feedback. Stack will do for now, I didn't
realise I can run ghci from outside a project directory using stack exec ghci. The platform is quite large, and I'm on a costly metered network connection.
You can also use “plain” ghc/ghci by adding, e.g., %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\stack\i386-windows\ghc-7.10.3\bin to your PATH after running stack setup.

Instructions to install with msys can be found here :
https://wiki.haskell.org/Windows
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Lian Hung Hon
There is no way to use haskell on Windows without stack? On 23 Dec 2015 23:54, "Adam Bergmark"
wrote: In short, use stack. Detailed here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.nl/2015/12/minghc-is-dead-long-live-stack.html
- Adam
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Lian Hung Hon
wrote: Dear Haskellers,
How can I install just ghc on Windows? Especially with regards to the network package? Before this I used minghc, but the github page says its now dead.
Sincerely, Hon
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