Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-18 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:45:54 +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 18 November 2010 00:37, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: If you use MinGW, your compiled program depends on mingwm10.dll (depending on the version of MinGW). Is this true in general or only when you have bindings pulling it in? The M

Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-18 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 18 November 2010 00:37, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > If you use MinGW, your compiled program depends on mingwm10.dll (depending > on the version of MinGW). Is this true in general or only when you have bindings pulling it in? The MinGW site and other places found in a search indicate that this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-17 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:38:54 +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote: One caveat is that if you want to build Haskell bindings to C libraries, MinGW+MSys is preferable to Cygwin. Cygwin shared libraries depend on the cygwin.dll which generally isn't what you want for bindings. If you use MinGW, your co

Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-17 Thread Stephen Tetley
Cygwin is fine for development - the shell is Bash (this can probably be changed), so it is much more capable than the MS shell. Personally I've never needed to uninstall Cygwin, if things get in a mess re-running the Cygwin installer seems to sort things out. One caveat is that if you want to bui

Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-17 Thread Aaron Gray
On 17 November 2010 15:47, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:40 +0100, Michael Litchard > wrote: > > I think I may have borked things good using cygwin. I want to remove >> it and do a clean install of haskell platform w/out cygwin. What do I >> need to do to make sure all co

Re: [Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-17 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:40 +0100, Michael Litchard wrote: I think I may have borked things good using cygwin. I want to remove it and do a clean install of haskell platform w/out cygwin. What do I need to do to make sure all configuration files have been removed? There are not many Cygwin

[Haskell-cafe] borked windows environment, want to start over

2010-11-16 Thread Michael Litchard
I think I may have borked things good using cygwin. I want to remove it and do a clean install of haskell platform w/out cygwin. What do I need to do to make sure all configuration files have been removed? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskel