id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
43	Installation issue on Windows	jeannekamikaze		"OS Windows
GHC 7.0.3
Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1

MinGW and MSys have been installed and the PATH variable set accordingly. Installation fails with the following error:

Resolving dependencies...
Configuring network-2.3.0.7...
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking winsock2.h usability... yes
checking winsock2.h presence... yes
checking for winsock2.h... yes
checking ws2tcpip.h usability... yes
checking ws2tcpip.h presence... yes
checking for ws2tcpip.h... yes
checking wspiapi.h usability... no
checking wspiapi.h presence... no
checking for wspiapi.h... no
checking arpa/inet.h usability... no
checking arpa/inet.h presence... no
checking for arpa/inet.h... no
checking netdb.h usability... no
checking netdb.h presence... no
checking for netdb.h... no
checking netinet/in.h usability... no
checking netinet/in.h presence... no
checking for netinet/in.h... no
checking netinet/tcp.h usability... no
checking netinet/tcp.h presence... no
checking for netinet/tcp.h... no
checking sys/socket.h usability... no
checking sys/socket.h presence... no
checking for sys/socket.h... no
checking sys/uio.h usability... no
checking sys/uio.h presence... no
checking for sys/uio.h... no
checking sys/un.h usability... no
checking sys/un.h presence... no
checking for sys/un.h... no
checking for readlink... no
checking for symlink... no
checking for struct msghdr.msg_control... no
checking for struct msghdr.msg_accrights... no
checking for struct sockaddr.sa_len... no
checking for in_addr_t in netinet/in.h... no
checking for SO_PEERCRED and struct ucred in sys/socket.h... no
checking for _head_libws2_32_a in -lws2_32... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... no
checking for getaddrinfo if WINVER is 0x0501... yes
checking for gai_strerror... no
checking whether AI_ADDRCONFIG is declared... no
checking whether AI_ALL is declared... no
checking whether AI_NUMERICSERV is declared... no
checking whether AI_V4MAPPED is declared... no
checking for sendfile in sys/sendfile.h... no
checking for sendfile in sys/socket.h... no
checking for gethostent... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating network.buildinfo
config.status: creating include/HsNetworkConfig.h
Preprocessing library network-2.3.0.7...
Preprocessing test suites for network-2.3.0.7...
Building network-2.3.0.7...

<interno>:0:5: lexical error (UTF-8 decoding error)
cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
network-2.3.0.7 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1"	defect	new	major		network	2.3		windows installation fail	jeannekamikaze@…