windows - Installing mingwrt into the haskell-platform without mingw-get -
the haskell-platform (2014.2.0.0) ships minggw, without mingw-get. however, compile setlocale bindings haskell need locale.h, part of mingwrt. in usual mingw installation use mingw-get install mingwrt, since it's not included in haskell-platform doesn't work out of box. what usual way of installing mingwrt without mingw-get? install msys[^1] download version 1.0.11 of msys. you'll need following files: msys-1.0.11.exe msysdtk-1.0.1.exe msyscore-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz files hosted on haskell.org they're quite hard find in official mingw/msys repo run msys-1.0.11.exe followed msysdtk-1.0.1.exe. former asks if want run normalization step. can skip that. unpack msyscore-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz d:\msys\1.0. note can't using msys shell, because can't overwrite files in use, make copy of d:\msys\1.0, unpack there, , rename copy d:\msys\1.0. [^1]: setting haskell development environment on windows