Re: Problem starting GHC 6.4 on windows 98
Sigbjorn Finne sof at galois.com writes: Expect to see an updated installer sometime early next week. Could it be something like patch to the installer or already installed ghc 6.4? ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Problem starting GHC 6.4 on windows 98
When trying to run GHC 6.4 (from the installer) on Windows 98, I get the following error message: The GHC.EXE file is linked to missing export SHELL32.DLL:SHGetFolderPathA From what I've been able to determine, on Windows version prior to Windows 2000, this function was instead exported from shfolder.dll, which is retained in later versions of Windows for backward compatibility, and on newer version of Windows, simply calls the version in shell32.dll. So it looks to me like GHC 6.4 from the installer won't be able to run on Windows 98 unless the executable in the installer is updated to link this function from shfolder.dll instead. -James ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: Problem starting GHC 6.4 on windows 98
Thanks, this issue was fixed a couple of hours ago in the CVS repository based on similar feedback from other Win9x users. Expect to see an updated installer sometime early next week. --sigbjorn - Original Message - From: J L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 20:26 Subject: Problem starting GHC 6.4 on windows 98 When trying to run GHC 6.4 (from the installer) on Windows 98, I get the following error message: The GHC.EXE file is linked to missing export SHELL32.DLL:SHGetFolderPathA From what I've been able to determine, on Windows version prior to Windows 2000, this function was instead exported from shfolder.dll, which is retained in later versions of Windows for backward compatibility, and on newer version of Windows, simply calls the version in shell32.dll. So it looks to me like GHC 6.4 from the installer won't be able to run on Windows 98 unless the executable in the installer is updated to link this function from shfolder.dll instead. -James ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
