mailrank/hdbc-mysql — Issue #5: Searching for mysql_config executable in setup fails on windows
Author: tm1rbrt
Created: 2011-10-29 21:05:46+00:00
State: open

I suspect because it has the .pl extension when installed on windows and it cannot be found by `findExecutable` in here http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.8.3/html/libraries/Cabal/src/Distribution-Compat-Directory.html

also note that unless cygwin or some other posix/unix emulation layer is installed, .pl files cannot be executed directly. You have the run the command `perl mysql_config.pl`

Perl is included with the Haskell platform on windows, but the perl executable is not in the PATH.