trying to install BlogLiterately
on win7/64.
- installed HP 2014.2/64
cabal update
cabal install cabal-install
- renamed
C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\2014.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe
to *.old cabal update
cabal install BlogLiterately
fails cuz needs unix toolchain to install new version ofnetwork
- tried installing
mingw
, but gave up cuz the package manager that pops up only lists packages with suffix32
, i want64
, can't tell from http://www.mingw.org/ if it supports 64 bit. - tried installing
cygwin64
, addedC:\cygwin64\bin
to the end ofPATH
, didn't work, see on internet that people thinkcygwin
doesn't work for ghc so well anymore, even though the original error saidcygwin
would work - found http://msys2.github.io/, installed it, followed instructions to update with
pacman
on that page, usedWin64 Shell
- got error that
HsOpenSSL
is missing c libseay32 ssl32
, googling says to install http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html thencabal install HsOpenSSL --extra-include-dirs="c:/OpenSSL-Win64/include" --extra-lib-dirs="c:/OpenSSL-Win64"
-- this works, but can't find any official looking docs saying i needWin32OpenSSL
-- why can't cabal install this for me? - now
cabal install BlogLiterately
fails cuzghc.exe: unable to load package 'hs-bibutils-5.5'
the error:
ghc.exe: warning: _stricmp from msvcrt is linked instead of __imp__stricmp
ghc.exe: warning: _stricmp from msvcrt is linked instead of __imp__stricmp
ghc.exe: warning: _atoi64 from msvcrt is linked instead of __imp__atoi64
ghc.exe: warning: toupper from msvcrt is linked instead of __imp_toupper
ghc.exe: warning: _strnicmp from msvcrt is linked instead of __imp__strnicmp
ghc.exe: C:\Users\nlab\AppData\Roaming\cabal\x86_64-windows-ghc-7.8.3\hs-bibutils-5.5\HShs-bibutils-5.5.o: unknown symbol `strdup'
cabal install hs-bibutils --reinstall --force-reinstalls
succeeds, but i get the same error when retrying the BlogLiterately
install. i tried moving /c/Program Files/Haskell Platform/2014.2.0.0/mingw/bin
to the front of the PATH
and again reinstalling hs-bibutils
, same result.
what is the right way to do this?!?! which unix toolchain are we supposed to use, and how are we supposed to configure it? why isn't it enough that HP includes mingw
's binaries? gah.
For posterity, new versions of the Haskell Platform for windows (since 8.0.1) allow network to build properly if the cabal file is augmented with a few extra settings as described on the platform website: https://www.haskell.org/platform/