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 hjgt...@chello.nl 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

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 stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 November 2010 00:37, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl 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

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 mich...@schmong.org 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

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 hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:40 +0100, Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org 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

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

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 stephen.tet...@gmail.com 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.