Installation of missing C libraries when installing HDBC-Sqlite3

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I am trying to set up my PC running windows XP to run the Haskell Platform and the SQLite3 database. I also have to install 2 additional Libraries from Hackage database (home of the additional haskell libraries)

  1. HDBC
  2. HDBC.sqlite3

I downloaded the Haskell platform and installed it on the following location on my computer

C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0

from the command line I installed the HDBC library with the following command

C:\Document and setting\oke\cabal install HDBC

from the command line I tried to install the HDBC-sqlite3

C:\Document and setting\oke\cabal install HDBC-sqlite3

this gave an error message stating …...

cabal missing dependency on foreign library *Missing C library:sqlite3 ExitFailure 1

please can somebody give details as to how I get the missing C libraries and what exact folders, do I place them in ? and how I install the HDBC-sqlite3 library using cabal ?

Do I install the Sqlite3 before installing libraries and what folder is best to do so?

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1 Answers

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Get the SQLite DLL from the SQLite download page, copy it to somewhere sensible (say, C:\sqlite3, and not Program Files nor anywhere in the Windows directory), add your chosen directory to the PATH (see the answers to this question for details) and, finally, install HDBC-sqlite3 with cabal. In general, cabal will not install C libraries, so whenever you install a package which depends on one you will have to set it up in your system beforehand.