id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc
212,HP Windows installer should add mingw/bin to PATH,nurpax,refold,"As far as I understood, the HP installer adds GHC and other Haskell tools to PATH, like so:

$ which ghc
/c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/bin/ghc

However, it seems that the embedded mingw installation is not added to PATH.  This directory is under 

/c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/mingw/bin

This by default causes installation of any package that have .c files in them to fail.  Examples of such packages are at least network and direct-sqlite.  

I didn't realize that mingw is included in HP so I was just assuming HP doesn't come with a C compiler at all.  Thus I've been working around this by doing tricks like in https://gist.github.com/3907344#comments

I think it'd make sense for the installer to stick the mingw\bin directory to PATH just as it seems to do for ghc.",defect,closed,major,2012.4.0.0,Windows installer,fixed,,