readline package in GHC 6.0.1 on Windows

[Sigbjorn Finne]

mingw (2.0.x) supplies a libreadline.a, but no header files to go with it,
which is why the readline package isn't being built (and shipped.) Hopefully
this will be fixed in a future release (of mingw.)

You can either go the route you suggest, or pick up a mingw port of
readline (there's a couple kicking about) and just compile up the readline
package.

hth
--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ganesh Sittampalam" <Ganesh.Sittampalam at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
To: <glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 09:45
Subject: readline package in GHC 6.0.1 on Windows


> Hi,
>
> I notice that the readline package is missing from the Windows MSI build
> of GHC 6.0.1. Is this deliberate and/or a fundamental limitation of the
> Windows platform? Would I have to/be able to make my own Cygwin-based
> build to get it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ganesh
>