All these should be fixed in future versions:
The scheme described in Section 2.3, “System-dependent parameters” will not work on Windows without MSYS or Cygwin.
Cabal has some limitations both running under Hugs and building packages for it:
Cabal requires the latest release (Mar 2005).
It doesn't work with Windows.
There is no hugs-pkg tool.
Though the library runs under Nhc98, it cannot build packages for Nhc98.
Please report any other flaws to
<libraries@haskell.org>.