I'm pretty sure you don't need mingw and all that. I've bootstrapped cabal-install on windows a few times now without needing anything more than ghc (though I haven't done 6.12 yet so I might be totally off base here...)
You can't use the nice bootstrap script, but you can download and build the dependencies manually (and IIRC there are about 5 or so that don't come included). Which is still a royal pain, but hopefully easier than all that other messiness. - Job On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Verswyvelen <bugf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using GHC 6.12.1 on Windows currently is hard, since one must compile > the latest version of cabal-install, which is a nightmare to do for a > typical windows user (install mingw, msys, utils like wget, download > correct package from hackage, compile them in correct order, etc etc) > > What's the status of the Haskell platform for the latest and greatest > Glasgow Haskell Compiler? > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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