Haskell can still be a pain

So, I am trying to install...one of the top GUI libraries for use with Haskell. Just the very fact that I have to compile a GUI library (in 2011) is kind of an issue.

But I am still having issue with it.

Current error:

ld\System\GIO\Types.o )
[ 3 of 24] Compiling System.GIO.Enums ( dist\build\System\GIO\Enums.hs, dist\bui
ld\System\GIO\Enums.o )
[ 4 of 24] Compiling System.GIO.File.FileAttribute ( dist\build\System\GIO\File\
FileAttribute.hs, dist\build\System\GIO\File\FileAttribute.o )
[ 5 of 24] Compiling System.GIO.Volumes.VolumeMonitor ( dist\build\System\GIO\Vo
lumes\VolumeMonitor.hs, dist\build\System\GIO\Volumes\VolumeMonitor.o )

System\GIO\Volumes\VolumeMonitor.chs:56:4:
Not in scope: `vmDriveStopButton'
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
gio-0.12.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
gtk-0.12.0 depends on gio-0.12.0 which failed to install.

Note: these errors and GUI libraries don't have much to do with the Haskell language but the environment and platform

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