#212: HP Windows installer should add mingw/bin to PATH
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Reporter: nurpax | Owner: refold
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: Windows installer | Keywords:
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As far as I understood, the HP installer adds GHC and other Haskell tools
to PATH, like so:
$ which ghc
/c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/bin/ghc
However, it seems that the embedded mingw installation is not added to
PATH. This directory is under
/c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/mingw/bin
This by default causes installation of any package that have .c files in
them to fail. Examples of such packages are at least network and direct-
sqlite.
I didn't realize that mingw is included in HP so I was just assuming HP
doesn't come with a C compiler at all. Thus I've been working around this
by doing tricks like in https://gist.github.com/3907344#comments
I think it'd make sense for the installer to stick the mingw\bin directory
to PATH just as it seems to do for ghc.
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