Cabal failed to install 'unix'

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it failed to install unix.

C:\Windows\system32>cabal install hdevtools
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring unix-2.6.0.1...
cabal: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin.
Failed to install unix-2.6.0.1
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
hdevtools-0.1.0.5 depends on unix-2.6.0.1 which failed to install.
unix-2.6.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1

C:\Windows\system32>

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cabal
As the error message says, hdevtools depends on the "unix" package which won't install in Windows. Try installing cygwin as it suggests. You can probably get by without hdevtools though. ghc-mod does the same thing, more or less (and may be OK on windows, I haven't tried). - Shaun the Sheep

1 Answers

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For Windows you may use this fork https://github.com/mvoidex/hdevtools.