1) Install Cygwin 1.7 (include autoreconf) .. 4) Change all instances of CALLCONV to stdcall 5) cabal install
Please can you apply the attached patch, which should be compatible with Linux/Mac too. I found lots of references to CALLCONV all over the place, but couldn't figure out where it started/ended up - my attempts at #define were rather unsuccessful. Could you please change the logic so Windows gets stdcall as standard?
That part rings a bell, as the opengl binding had the same issue when dropping out of ghc's extralibs: those packages tend to be integrated into ghc's build system (or one version thereof), which sets things like CALLCONV. This particular setting tended to happen (ghc's build system has changed since I last looked, and I can't check right now) in configure (generated from configure.ac), by simply checking the build's $host variable for '*-mingw32'. This doesn't work when building on cygwin (even when using the mingw tool chain, configure will see cygwin as the host), and the simple workaround was only documented for ghc builds, not for the packages depending on ghc's build system. If that information is still relevant, you should be able to get around the CALLCONV issue when building from cygwin by passing a configure option. Here is the example that used to do the trick for building opengl/glut from cygwin: cabal install opengl glut --configure-option="--host=i386-unknown-mingw32" --reinstall A better solution would be for configure to test for the gcc tool chain, not the host environment, before setting CALLCONV. Might apply to other packages that have dropped out of the old extralibs. Hope this helps, Claus