Re: [Haskell-cafe] When did it become so hard to install Haskell on Windows?
On May 11, 2020 at 10:52:36 AM, Michal J Gajda (mgajda@mimuw.edu.pl) wrote:
3. To enter relevant command line in admin PowerShell so that Chocolatey installs GHC. 4. Ditto for Mingw (3 attempts, since I think default Mingw package lacks full build environment.) 4. Ditto for every dependency of my Haskell package. (Is there a way to get standardized library dependencies across the platforms? Drop me a line if it is at all possible without Nix.)
I’m confused. When you used chocolatey, why did you not run “choco install haskell-dev” as suggested on https://www.haskell.org/platform/#windows (and i imagine everywhere else)? This should have installed ghc, msys2 and cabal for you at once. Further what do you mean "Ditto for every dependency of my Haskell package” — do you mean haskell dependencies or c dependencies? If the latter, how is this different than any other OS? Also, why were you installing c dependencies with chocolatey, if that’s indeed what you were doing? With msys2 the way to do things is install them with pacman. Perhaps what is needed is just better and more centralized documentation? -g
Suppose I missed the part how to install updated `haskell-dev` with
specific compiler version.
(Asking for specific compiler version is best current practice AFAIK.)
On Tue, May 12, 2020, 08:59 Gershom B
On May 11, 2020 at 10:52:36 AM, Michal J Gajda (mgajda@mimuw.edu.pl) wrote:
3. To enter relevant command line in admin PowerShell so that Chocolatey installs GHC. 4. Ditto for Mingw (3 attempts, since I think default Mingw package lacks full build environment.) 4. Ditto for every dependency of my Haskell package. (Is there a way to get standardized library dependencies across the platforms? Drop me a line if it is at all possible without Nix.)
I’m confused. When you used chocolatey, why did you not run “choco install haskell-dev” as suggested on https://www.haskell.org/platform/#windows (and i imagine everywhere else)? This should have installed ghc, msys2 and cabal for you at once.
Further what do you mean "Ditto for every dependency of my Haskell package” — do you mean haskell dependencies or c dependencies? If the latter, how is this different than any other OS? Also, why were you installing c dependencies with chocolatey, if that’s indeed what you were doing? With msys2 the way to do things is install them with pacman.
Perhaps what is needed is just better and more centralized documentation?
-g
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