Just to note a problem I encountered on Windows, which may well be user error.
I unpacked the mingw tarball and added the bin directory from it to my path. cabal install then failed with "cabal.exe: does not exist" after producing some other output. Running with -v3 suggested that the actual problem was that the ld on my path couldn't read the .o files produced by GHC. I changed my path to also include the mingw\bin directory from the tarball, and then all was fine. On 03/02/2014 22:35, Austin Seipp wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc1/ > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc1/html/ > > This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS > X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. There is a signed copy of > the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG key (keyid > 0x3B58D86F). > > We plan to make the 7.8.1 RC2 release quite soon, as we're aware of > some existing issues. > > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them > before the release! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users