Installing Haskell on Windows

Question

This is what I have done so far... I am following instructions posted here Haskell on Windows Setup

Step 1: Install Haskell Platform

Step 2: Install a SublimeText3

Step 3: Enabled the Package manager in Sublime 3a. Tools -> Command Palette 3b. Type in Package Control: Install Package 3c. Select SublimeHaskell

Step 4: In cmd ran,

       cabal install cabal-install --user
       cabal update
       cabal install aeson --user
       cabal install haskell-src-exts --user
       cabal install ghc-mod --user
       canal install haddock-2.13.2.1 --user

Step 5: I downloaded the source code of hdevtools runhaskell Setup.hs configure --user This is what I get

      Configuring hdevtools-0.1.0.5...
      Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
      unix - any

Can someone in detail explain how to fix this? Thx

Answer 1

As discussed above, the was that hdevtools requires the unix package, which, as the name implies is not supported on windows, and does not support either Cygwin or MinGW.

So hdevtools is, sadly, not buildable on windows machines.