Stephen Tetley wrote:
Andrew, I was going to chastise you for being the only Windows
developer who has problems with MinGW / MSYS and spreading that
unpleasant internet commodity "FUD". However, I've just gone back to
mingw.org and its gone from "somewhat confusing" circa the last time I
installed (Christmas 2009) to "frankly abysmal". So while is was easy
to install MinGW / MSys a year ago I'll willing concede that it is
difficult now.
[A side issue - anyone who thinks socializing Hackage is a good idea
should pay mingw.org a visit...]
I followed this guide the last time I installed:
http://www.mingw.org/faq/How_do_I_install_MSYS
Having a slightly out-of-date installation shouldn't be a problem for
Haskell development.
Well, part of the issue is that it just annoys me as a matter of
principle that I have to install a *Unix* emulator in order to write
*Windows* software. What's up with that?
But anyway, as I say, I figured I could just install the emulator on a
VM, build the libraries once, and then use the binaries anywhere.
Unfortunately, I was eventually forced to give up after trying to
install MSYS / MinGW. You'd think you could just download a file and
unzip it, or maybe run an installer... but no. That would be far too easy.
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