+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+-- * Search path
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-- | The function splits the given string to substrings
+-- using the 'searchPathSeparator'.
+parseSearchPath :: String -> [FilePath]
+parseSearchPath path = split path
+ where
+ split :: String -> [String]
+ split s =
+ case rest' of
+ [] -> [chunk]
+ _:rest -> chunk : split rest
+ where
+ chunk =
+ case chunk' of
+#ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS
+ ('\"':xs@(_:_)) | last xs == '\"' -> init xs
+#endif
+ _ -> chunk'
+
+ (chunk', rest') = break (==searchPathSeparator) s
+
+-- | A platform-specific character used to separate search path strings in
+-- environment variables. The separator is a colon (\":\") on Unix and Macintosh,
+-- and a semicolon (\";\") on the Windows operating system.
+searchPathSeparator :: Char
+#if mingw32_HOST_OS || mingw32_TARGET_OS
+searchPathSeparator = ';'
+#else
+searchPathSeparator = ':'
+#endif
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Convert filepath into platform / MSDOS form.
+
+-- We maintain path names in Unix form ('/'-separated) right until
+-- the last moment. On Windows we dos-ify them just before passing them
+-- to the Windows command.
+--
+-- The alternative, of using '/' consistently on Unix and '\' on Windows,
+-- proved quite awkward. There were a lot more calls to platformPath,
+-- and even on Windows we might invoke a unix-like utility (eg 'sh'), which
+-- interpreted a command line 'foo\baz' as 'foobaz'.
+
+normalisePath :: String -> String
+-- Just changes '\' to '/'
+
+pgmPath :: String -- Directory string in Unix format
+ -> String -- Program name with no directory separators
+ -- (e.g. copy /y)
+ -> String -- Program invocation string in native format
+
+#if defined(mingw32_HOST_OS)
+--------------------- Windows version ------------------
+normalisePath xs = subst '\\' '/' xs
+pgmPath dir pgm = platformPath dir ++ '\\' : pgm
+platformPath p = subst '/' '\\' p
+
+subst a b ls = map (\ x -> if x == a then b else x) ls
+#else
+--------------------- Non-Windows version --------------
+normalisePath xs = xs
+pgmPath dir pgm = dir ++ '/' : pgm
+platformPath stuff = stuff
+--------------------------------------------------------
+#endif