Dominick, I don't know what error you ran into, but here are a few tips:
* The "network" package requires configure, so you will likely need to install it from an MSYS prompt. * Make sure your existing cabal executable is version 1.18 or higher. Execute `cabal --version` and `ghc --version` to make sure older versions are not being found. Because of the way Windows handles paths you may have to specify the full path to cabal.exe * Delete your %appdata%\ghc and %appdata%\cabal folders, then run `cabal update`. This will clear out any previous cabal packages you may have already installed. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you Austin! > > I unpacked the Windows 64bit distribution and tried to update cabal as > instructed, but got this: > Registering zlib-0.5.4.1... > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > HTTP-4000.2.12 depends on network 2.4.2.2 which failed to install. > network-2.4.2.2 failed during the configure step. > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> > wrote: > > ============================================================== > > The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 > > ============================================================== > > > > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There > > have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, > > including: > > > > * New type-system features > > * Closed type families > > * Role checking > > * An improved solver for type naturals > > * Better support for cross compilation > > * Full iOS support > > * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager > > * Dynamic linking for GHCi > > * Several language improvements > > * Pattern synonyms > > * Overloaded list syntax > > * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class > > * A new parallel --make mode > > * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support > > * A brand-new low level code generator > > * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. > > > > The full release notes are here: > > > > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html > > > > How to get it > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: > > > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ > > > > We supply binary builds in the native package format for many > > platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same > > place. > > > > Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your > > system isn't available yet, please try again later. > > > > > > Background > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. > > > > GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is > > an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of > > platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick > > development. The distribution includes space and time profiling > > facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various > > language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign > > language interfaces (C, whatever). 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The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a > > new platform: > > > > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building > > > > > > Developers > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > We welcome new contributors. 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