[haskell-platform] #212: HP Windows installer should add mingw/bin to PATH

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#212: HP Windows installer should add mingw/bin to PATH
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 Reporter:  nurpax             |       Owner:  refold
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major              |   Milestone:        
Component:  Windows installer  |    Keywords:        
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 As far as I understood, the HP installer adds GHC and other Haskell tools
 to PATH, like so:

 $ which ghc
 /c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/bin/ghc

 However, it seems that the embedded mingw installation is not added to
 PATH.  This directory is under

 /c/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2012.2.0.0/mingw/bin

 This by default causes installation of any package that have .c files in
 them to fail.  Examples of such packages are at least network and direct-
 sqlite.

 I didn't realize that mingw is included in HP so I was just assuming HP
 doesn't come with a C compiler at all.  Thus I've been working around this
 by doing tricks like in https://gist.github.com/3907344#comments

 I think it'd make sense for the installer to stick the mingw\bin directory
 to PATH just as it seems to do for ghc.

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