I am using Windows 7 with locale zh_CN and ghc-7.0.4
Default code page of the cmd.exe is 936.
> cabal install ghc-mod
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.0...
Preprocessing library ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.0...
Building ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.0...
<built-in>:0:4: lexical error (UTF-8 decoding error)
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
ghc-mod-1.10.7 depends on ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.0 which failed to install.
ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
I have tried change code page and re-install again, but get the same output.
> chcp 65001
> cabal install ghc-mod
Some packages can be built successfully:
xml-1.3.12 textmath-0.6.0.3 tagsoup-0.12.6
Some packages would fail:
temporary-1.1.2.3 utf8-string-0.3.7 pandoc-types-1.9.0.2 json-0.5
I encountered the same problem.
I don’t know if the cause is the same, but try
before you run cabal. In my case, that fixed the problem.