Hey,

I got the same error at first too. Running
set LANG=C
in cmd before compiling fixed it for me. This is probably not
common/default behavior since no one has considred it important to
mention it in the guides. Only info I was able to find on this was
from a japanese blog using google translate.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:32 PM, carlos gomez <carliros.g-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to build wxhaskell on windows 7 and HP.2011.4.0.0,
> but I've got this error when installing wxdirect:
>
> C:\>cabal install wxdirect
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring strict-0.3.2...
> Preprocessing library strict-0.3.2...
> Building strict-0.3.2...
>
> <interno>:0:5: lexical error (UTF-8 decoding error)
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> strict-0.3.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> wxdirect-0.90.0.1 depends on strict-0.3.2 which failed to install.
>
>
> Any ideas of what to do?
>
> thanks, Carlos Gomez
>
>
> On 22 April 2012 09:48, Eric Kow <eric.kow-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After struggling a bit to get wxHaskell 0.90 working on a Windows VM, I
>> thought a few links and tips could be useful
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Windows
>>
>> --
>> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>>
>>
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