There is a nice table in the cabal docs that explains how prefix gets used:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/Cabal/builders.html#simple-paths For Vista and above C:\Documents and settings\myusername\ is C:\Users\myusername. The equivalent to $HOME on Windows would be $USERPROFILE but the syntax of expanding an environment variable is going to depend on the shell you are using: cmd window: cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user PowerShell: cabal install --prefix=${env:USERPROFILE} --user msys window: cabal install --prefix=$USERPROFILE --user Note that msys does define $HOME and it is a different physical path than $USERPROFILE. Ryan On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Dmitri O.Kondratiev <doko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On win32 "cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user" fails: > > cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user > Resolving dependencies... > Configuring split-0.1.4... > cabal: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: $HOME > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > split-0.1.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was: > ExitFailure 1 > > What is the right equivalent of "cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user" on > Win32? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
