From aaa1732f2a4c95315199de634e3aa655fbd76d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lynagh Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:06:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak Windows installation instructions in the user guide --- docs/users_guide/installing.xml | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/users_guide/installing.xml b/docs/users_guide/installing.xml index 4f3a1c2..a586aab 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/installing.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/installing.xml @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html">GHC download page. Run the installer. On Windows, all of GHC's files are installed in a single directory. You can override it, but by default this directory is -c:/ghc/ghc-version. +c:/ghc/ghc-version. The executable binary for GHC will be installed in the bin/ sub-directory of the installation directory. If you want to invoke GHC from a command line, add this @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ to your $PATH environment variable. When installation is complete, you should find GHCi and the GHC documentation are available in your Start menu under -"Start/All Programs/GHC/ghc-version". +"Start/All Programs/GHC/ghc-version". @@ -243,17 +243,17 @@ GHC needs a directory in which to create, and later delete, temporary files. It uses the standard Windows procedure GetTempPath() to find a suitable directory. This procedure returns: -The path in environment variable TMP, +The path in the environment variable TMP, if TMP is set. -Otherwise, the path in environment variable TEMP, +Otherwise, the path in the environment variable TEMP, if TEMP is set. Otherwise, there is a per-user default which varies between versions of Windows. On NT and XP-ish versions, it might be: -c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp +c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp. -The main point is that if you don't do anything GHC will work fine; +The main point is that if you don't do anything GHC will work fine, but if you want to control where the directory is, you can do so by setting TMP or TEMP. @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ You do not need the Cygwin toolchain, or anything else, to install and run GHC. -An installation of GHC requires about 340M of disk space. +An installation of GHC requires about 365M of disk space. To run GHC comfortably, your machine should have at least 64M of memory. @@ -291,16 +291,16 @@ To run GHC comfortably, your machine should have at least Moving GHC around Once GHC is installed, you can freely move the entire GHC tree just by copying -the c:/ghc/ghc-version +the c:/ghc/ghc-version directory. (You will need to fix up -the links in "Start/All Programs/GHC/ghc-version" +the links in "Start/All Programs/GHC/ghc-version" if you do this.) It is OK to put GHC tree in a directory whose path involves spaces. However, don't do this if you use want to use GHC with the Cygwin tools, because Cygwin can get confused when this happens. -We havn't quite got to the bottom of this, but so far as we know it's not +We haven't quite got to the bottom of this, but so far as we know it's not a problem with GHC itself. Nevertheless, just to keep life simple we usually put GHC in a place with a space-free path. -- 1.7.10.4