I have started learning Haskell for second time :) First was attempt was failure. I have simple guide how to create portable Haskell for Windows: 1. Download Haskell Platform from http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ runas admin and select "just extract files" in Haskell dir 2. make Haskell\hs.bat -> ---------------------------- @ECHO OFF rem %~dp0 survives runas admin, %CD% doesn't rem %~d0 current drive rem No spaces in Path! SET Path=%Path%;%~dp0;%~dp0bin;%~dp0lib;%~dp0lib\extralibs\bin;%~dp0mingw\bin;%~dp0code;C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin CMD /k "cd %~dp0MyCode" ---------------------------- MyCode is folder in Haskell dir. Content between --- should be written in hs.bat 3. start hs.bat and type: path // check paths ghci // check interpreter Prelude> :? Test it for yourself and put it in a book if you think it will do some good.