Here we go:

• Download GHC 7.8.2
• Unzip into directory and add bin and mingw/bin subdirectories to path
• Download cabal-install 1.20.0.1
• Unzip and copy cabal.exe into bin directory specified above
• Download sources for unix-compat 0.4.1.1
• Unzip into any directory
• Patch cbits/HsUname.c and cbits/mktemp.c and unix-compat.cabal
• Build this package from source and install (per-user):
  • runhaskell Setup configure --user --prefix=$env:APPDATA\cabal-custom
  • runhaskell Setup build
  • runhaskell Setup install

Oh, and it still doesn’t work. I’m thwarted by the following:

ghc.exe: Unknown PEi386 section name `.text.unlikely' (while processing: C:\Users\rcook\AppData\Roaming\cabal\x86_64-windows-ghc-7.8.2\yaml-0.8.8.2\HSyaml-0.8.8.2.o)

Turns out that GHC 7.8.2 is busted (see here, here and here). I’ll let you know if I figure anything out.

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