Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: andrewcoppin: According to the instructions, if I'm understanding this correctly, you're supposed to be able to unpack a package, and do runhaskell Setup configure runhaskell Setup make runhaskell Setup install I usually install as a user, and into my home

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Coppin
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 22:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: According to the instructions, if I'm understanding this correctly, you're supposed to be able to unpack a package, and do runhaskell Setup configure runhaskell Setup make runhaskell Setup install

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-09 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:38:28PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: ...there's a libraries list? (And a Cabal list??) http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Stefan signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of | the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. | | But it shouldn't. Really it shouldn't. Even though Windows is not my | preferred platform, it is by no means different enough to warrant such | additional complexity.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Licata
On Nov08, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of | the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. | | But it shouldn't. Really it shouldn't. Even though Windows is not my | preferred platform, it is by no means different enough

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 7-nov-2007, at 18:38, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:34 +0100, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: Hello all, maybe I'm just not used enough to Windows, but let me explain my woes of today. It seems to me to be *much* too hard to get a full install of GHC + GTK2Hs going on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Coppin
Neil Mitchell wrote: Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. Is that why Cabal packages never ever install on Windows? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Thomas Schilling
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:34 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. Is that why Cabal packages never ever install on Windows? Could you be more specific

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Coppin
Thomas Schilling wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:34 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. Is that why Cabal packages never ever install on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: Thomas Schilling wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:34 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. Is that why Cabal packages

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 08:56 +0100, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: Well, honestly, that was a bit of a fib: the tarball's configure did in fact not break on alex and haskell. Just the development version did. Ah yes. Well, I didn't have any Unix available at that point, so I kinda had to, even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 22:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Is that why Cabal packages never ever install on Windows? Could you be more specific what your problems are? Not to the point that anybody is likely to be able to help me... According to the instructions, if I'm understanding

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:34 +0100, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: Hello all, maybe I'm just not used enough to Windows, but let me explain my woes of today. It seems to me to be *much* too hard to get a full install of GHC + GTK2Hs going on Windows, going from the idea that I want the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Arthur, The correct steps to take are: 1) install GHC from the windows installer - trivial 2) install Gtk2hs from the windows installer Unfortunately Gtk2hs hasn't been updated to work with GHC 6.8.1, so step 2 will fail. The person who is going to do this is Duncan. He usually breaks down

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-07 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 7-nov-2007, at 17:43, Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi Arthur, The correct steps to take are: 1) install GHC from the windows installer - trivial 2) install Gtk2hs from the windows installer Unfortunately Gtk2hs hasn't been updated to work with GHC 6.8.1, so step 2 will fail. The person who is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:20 +0100, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: With kind regards, Arthur. (Who will surely do more Windows development with Haskell soonish) Good! We need more developers to help us with windows stuff. We're in this difficult situation where half of our users use Windows