Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell zlib on win32

2007-03-06 Thread Iain Alexander
When I tried this, I discovered that when building the zlib C code, I had to cd zlib-1.2.3 and that then of course makes the cd .. before building the haskell zlib right. (Not to mention the obvious typo of Setup.py for Setup.hs.) I also had to add -package fps to ghc-options in zlib.cabal, b

[Haskell-cafe] haskell zlib on win32

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Newsham
Building haskell's zlib library for win32 is not trivial since it relies on an external C library. Most of the required tools are shipped with the ghc binary distribution though. I finally bit the bullet and jumped through the build hoops to install it. My notes are attached below. The build c