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How to configure cabal for ghc 7.10 on windows 64-bit

I just downloaded the newest GHC 7.10.1 and I am trying to get my cabal system up and running. But I couldn't find a 64bit binary cabal

for 64bit windows.

There is no 7.10 in the Haskell Platform yet. So I went to https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html but for 32 bit windows only binary exists. I tried using this version for cabal update

, but cabal.exe

just crashed when setting up the initial config.

I was wondering how to configure cabal

for 64bit GHC?

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Here's what worked for me.

I used a previous version of 64-bit GHC, for example in the Haskell Platform, to compile cabal.exe

and use it to execute:

cabal install cabal-install


(loading strapping).

After that cabal.exe

, installed to local directory was 64bit and worked fine.

Note. I tried using MinGHC 64-bit like @Zeta but it cabal.exe

was 32-bit too. It seems to be incompatible with GHC 64bit system and gave me a crash like 32bit cabal.exe

downloaded from official site.

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