不使用mingw-get将mingwrt安装到haskell平台中

Question

The haskell-platform (2014.2.0.0) ships MingGW, but without mingw-get. However, to compile the setlocale bindings for haskell I need locale.h, which is part of mingwrt.

In a usual mingw installation I would use mingw-get to install mingwrt, but since it's not included in the haskell-platform that doesn't work out of the box.

What would be the usual way of installing mingwrt without mingw-get?

Answer 1

Install MSYS[^1]

Download version 1.0.11 of MSYS. You'll need the following files:

MSYS-1.0.11.exe

msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz

The files are all hosted on haskell.org as they're quite hard to find in the official MinGW/MSYS repo

Run MSYS-1.0.11.exe followed by msysDTK-1.0.1.exe. The former asks you if you want to run a normalization step. You can skip that.

Unpack msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz into D:\msys\1.0. Note that you can't do that using an MSYS shell, because you can't overwrite the files in use, so make a copy of D:\msys\1.0, unpack it there, and then rename the copy back to D:\msys\1.0.

[^1]: Setting up a Haskell development environment on Windows