Hello Kevin, Thanks. I understand that this is a toolchain issue, I just got used to the nice feeling of having 'cabal install foo' works seamlessly and flawlessly to get me some magic piece of software :-) I will try to be more patient and try to setup a proper toolchain for installing plugins package.
Arnaud On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kevin Jardine <kevinjard...@gmail.com> wrote: > This isn't about the plugin functionality, it's about compiling code. > > As the message says : > > This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or > Cygwin. > > You'll find that you need such a toolchain to compile much open source > software, including many Haskell modules, on Windows. > > Personally I use MinGW+MSYS on my Windows machine. It works very well. > > Kevin > > On Nov 12, 3:20 pm, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oq...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I recently tried to >> >> cabal install plugins >> >> on a windows box and it failed with the following error: >> >> Resolving dependencies... >> Downloading plugins-1.5.1.4... >> Configuring plugins-1.5.1.4... >> cabal: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix >> compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin. >> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: >> plugins-1.5.1.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was: >> ExitFailure 1 >> >> What solution can I use to load dynamically code in a cross-platform way ? >> >> Thanks in advance >> Arnaud >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> haskell-c...@haskell.orghttp://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe