On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 19:29 -0800, Philippos Apolinarius wrote: > D:\ghc\ghcapi>cabal install mkcabal
Note that as of cabal-install-0.8, the "mkcabal" functionality is integrated as "cabal init" (thanks to Brent Yorgey). This does not depend on less portable packages like pcre and readline (meaning it will work on Windows). > Resolving dependencies... > Downloading pcre-light-0.3.1... > Configuring pcre-light-0.3.1... There's no reason pcre-light needs a configure script. It should be removed. (It's also not used consistently, the Setup.hs is for a different build-type than the one specified in the .cabal file). > Downloading readline-1.0.1.0... > Configuring readline-1.0.1.0... > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > mkcabal-0.4.2 depends on readline-1.0.1.0 which failed to install. > pcre-light-0.3.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: > exit: ExitFailure 1 > readline-1.0.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: > exit: ExitFailure 1 As of Cabal-1.8 the error is reported as: cabal: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe