[Haskell-cafe] Installing Haskell on Windows 7

2009-12-27 Thread Thomas Hühn
[Please excuse me if I seem to be a bit frustrated. I am. I have tried to transcribe a live Haskell platform installation session, but I don't remember details of my past attempts to get cabal working. If you have any questions: shoot.] Hi I've been trying to install GHC and some libraries on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing Haskell on Windows 7

2009-12-27 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Thomas Hühn x...@arcor.de wrote: Has anyone who is *not* a Haskell/ghc/cabal expert been able to install Haskell satisfactorily on Windows 7? It worked fine for me, but then I didn't try to do anything fancy. The data-dir and prefix you mention is where

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing Haskell on Windows 7

2009-12-27 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Thomas I suspect the problem you are having is specifically with Pandoc. Pandoc has a couple of dependencies on C libraries: network and zlib are two - they are part of the Haskell platform so they would be working in the first place (I have a mostly vanilla install of Haskell platform on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installing Haskell on Windows 7

2009-12-27 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 10:06 +0100, Thomas Hühn wrote: The following packages are broken, either because they have a problem listed above, or because they depend on a broken package. binary-0.5.0.2 digest-0.0.0.8 template-0.1.1.1 utf8-string-0.3.6 zip-archive-0.1.1.4 haddock-2.4.2