Problems building via cabal/haskell platform core

[yaxu]

Hi, I maintain http://github.com/tidalcycles/tidal, a popular haskell music library.

We have many end-users (most of which are completely new to Haskell) having problems installing it via the 'core' distribution of the haskell platform, because the network library fails to build. Here is a typical build error:

They assure me they updated the cabal config file with the correct paths as per step two here: https://www.haskell.org/platform/#windows

This error doesn't occur with the 'full' haskell platform, I suppose this is because the network library is already bundled. However with the latest platform release, there is no 'full' version. I'm directing people at the previous version of the platform for now..

I'm scratching my head over this one, any ideas?

[yaxu]

Possible duplicate of #89, although as far as I know, the haskell platform ships with MSYS.

[eborden]

@Mistuke is our Windows expert.

[Mistuke]

@yaxu can you get a log from cabal new-install tidal -v3? That should hopefully shed some light. Platform should indeed be shipping with msys2.

[yaxu]

I just tried this myself on a windows 10 partition, and it installed fine. Perhaps they just made a mistake with the haskell platform install process. I'll close this for now, thanks.

[yaxu]

This is still an issue after all, but @Mistuke kindly found a fix over here haskell/haskell-platform#318 (comment)

[Mistuke]

I believe this is fixed.