[darcs-users] Building Darcs 2.3.0 on Windows 7

Duncan Coutts duncan at haskell.org
Mon Aug 17 18:12:11 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:40 +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 18:33:05 +0100, Grant Husbands wrote:
> > > I typed:
> > > cabal install -f-curl
> > >
> > > Things went along pretty well until this appeared:
> > [...]
> > > setup.exe: CreateDirectory: permission denied (Access is denied.)
> > 
> > It looks like the same issue I hit. If so, you need to be running an
> > administrative command prompt. If you find "Command Prompt" in your
> > start menu (either in Accessories or by searching), you can
> > right-click on it and choose "Run as Administrator". The normal
> > command prompt is unable to alter certain folders, for security
> > reasons.
> 
> Perhaps this belongs in the Troubleshooting FAQ as well?
>   http://wiki.darcs.net/Troubleshooting
> 
> CC'ing Duncan on the off chance that this would be of interest to him
> from the Cabal standpoint as well.

We'll need a lot more details to work out what is going on. I've tried
remote debugging Cabal permission problems on Vista before and at the
end I was no wiser than I was at the beginning. (I'm sure a lot of that
was down to unclear communication and an inexperienced user.)

Duncan



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