| > I can't help you gain access to windows but Hugs is many, many times | > easier to install than GHC - you don't need mingw, cygwin or anything | > like that. (Truth in advertising: to use the ffi (e.g., to interface | > to libcurl), you do need a C compiler :-() | | Hmmmm. I hadn't thought of using hugs! I do need ffi (for libcurl), but I | already have the mingw c/c++ cross-compiler installed (I use it to compile | the windows version of my bridge game), so I may be able to port to windows | with less trouble that I had thought, by running hugs under wine... Lies, all lies :-) To install GHC you double click on the installer. That's all. No cygwin, no mingw, nothing. To *build* GHC from source you need these things, but to install and run it you need none of them. If this isn't the case I'd like to know about it. Simon