After waiting four hours for the libraries to compile on my woefully underpowered machine, I gave up and tried to use the libraries from: http://repetae.net/john/computer/jhc/libs/ I copied both files into my jhc dir, and then: stefan@stefans:/usr/local/src/jhc$ ./jhc -L. -flint -v test/HelloWorld.hs jhc -L. -flint -v test/HelloWorld.hs Compiling ["test/HelloWorld.hs"] Loading libraries: ["base","haskell98"] Loading library: "base-1.0" @ "./base-1.0.hl" Loading library ./base-1.0.hl failed due to missing dependencies stefan@stefans:/usr/local/src/jhc$ Also, augustss on #haskell said that he was unable to use jhc because "the precompiled libraries were incompatible with my jhc somehow". Is this a known problem? (not being able to use precompiled libs) Stefan