Yes, that's a very good point. Did you know that Strawberry Perl includes a cygwin gcc? http://strawberryperl.com Maybe Haskell Platform could do the same. On Nov 10, 2012 5:28 PM, "Stephen Tetley" <stephen.tetley@gmail.com> wrote:

The only short cut would be to have it in the Platform - otherwise it is DIY I'm afraid.

This is as much Microsoft's "fault" as Haskell's for not providing a C compiler, build tools etc. in the baseline environment.