diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
@@ -49,57 +49,15 @@ now! --[[Joey]]
## trying to build XMPP
- Trying to install the deps, using libs from cygwin. Cabal can be used
- with some hacking:
+1. gnutls-$LATEST.zip from
+2. pkg-config from
+
+3. libxml2 from mingw:
+
+ both the -dll and the -dev
+3. gsasl from
+3. gnuidn from
+3. Extract all the above into the Haskell platform's mingw directory. Note
+ that pkg-config needs to be moved out of a named subdirectory.
+4. Run in DOS prompt (not cygwin!): cabal install gnutls libxml-sax gsasl gnuidn network-protocol-xmpp
- cabal unpack libxml-sax
- cd libxml-sax-*
- cabal configure --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\libxml2
- cabal build || true
- cabal copy
- cabal register
-
- cabal unpack gnutls
- cd gnutls-*
- cabal configure --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\
- cabal build || true
- cabal copy
- cabal register
-
- # get mingw x86 gasal zip from and unpack
- # into the Haskell platform's mingw directory.
- cabal unpack gsasl
- cd gsasl-*
- cabal configure --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\
- cabal build || true
- cabal copy
- cabal register --gen-pkg-config
- grep -v /home/jas gsasl*.conf > hacked.conf
- ghc-pkg update hacked.conf --global --user --force
-
- Cannot get haskell gnuidn binding to link. Workaround: It's not hard to hack
- network-client-xmpp to not use gnuidn.
-
- dlls don't get found when building git-annex,
- at TH link time. Worked around by copying /usr/bin/cyggnutls-28.dll to
- ./gnutls.dll, and the same for several others. Note that gsasl has
- to be copied from where it was installed in ming2/bin/libgsasl-7.dll
- to gsasl.dll (the libgsasl.dll from cygwin won't work).
-
- Loading package gnutls-0.1.5 ... linking ... done.
- Loading package gsasl-0.3.5 ... linking ... ghc.exe: unable to load package `gsasl-0.3.5'
- ghc.exe: C:\Documents and Settings\me\Application Data\cabal\gsasl-0.3.5\ghc-7.6.3\HSgsasl-0.3.5.o: unknown symbol `_gsasl_client_start'
-
- Current problem:
-
- GHCi runtime linker: fatal error: I found a duplicate definition for symbol
- _adler32
- whilst processing object file
- C:\cygwin\lib\libz.a
-
- I think this means I can't use the cygwin libs, and need to get mingw
- builds of gnutls and libxml2 instead.
-
- TODO: Try , and libxml2 from mingw,
- and pkg-config from or
-