Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything
obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows.
(IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build
process!) I haven't seen similar problems on Linux. (But I don't use
Linux very often.) About the worst problem there was Gtk2hs being
confused about some Autoconfig stuff or something...
Many packages assume you have the msys / mingw stuff installed on
Windows (if they work at all; those of us who don't develop on Windows
wouldn't really know how to go about being compatible).
According to the Cabal experts, the issue is that Windows doesn't have a
"standard" place for keeping header files like the various POSIX
environments typically do. That means anything that binds an external C
library (i.e., almost all useful Haskell packages) don't easily work on
Windows. I'm not sure what the solution to this is...
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
