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Personally I've had very few issues using Haskell libs on OSX and Windows.

Personally I had so many issues using Haskell libs on Windows that I gave up on the language.

I've documented the details of my complaint here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615516

I think this comment from that thread tells you all you need to know:

shpider might be giving you another hint about using Haskell:

(from the README):

"occupation" =: "unemployed Haskell programmer"

"location" =: "mother's house"

Sure, but like I said, "Long story short, I tried installing ~10 libraries with Cabal and only one installed smoothly."