Linux is not really an option for me, and I have used Windows for most of my Haskell projects without too many problems up to now. 

I guess I am trying to highlight the fact that on a fairly popular operating system, there is very little choice of database for Yesod. Yesod is a phenomenal framework, which I believe could see a lot more use if there were more database options than just Postgres. 

Again, is there a way to use ODBC but not provide all the features in Yesod just to get started (eg skip migration), or is this just not realistic?

Thanks for any feedback!

Grant


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Weber <greg@gregweber.info> wrote:
Another option  besides fixing the installer is using a virtual machine. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like it would help you to try to just run the database in the VM. I do all my development on an Ubuntu virtual machine. 


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Grant Weyburne <weyburne@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying to use Yesod with Mysql on Windows but cannot get the mysql package to build. 
I can see that there is an error report about this problem that hasn't been addressed for the past 11 months:


At the moment this means that the only real database on Windows is Postgres, but I can only use mysql or mssql in this project.
Since it doesn't look like this problem will be solved any time soon, can anyone think of reasonable alternatives?
So far my only thought is using an Odbc interface with a subset of the persistent functionality. 
This could additonally open up access to MS Sql Server and Oracle. 
Anyway, I'd appreciate your thoughts about this.
Thanks so much,
Grant


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