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| − | + | See http://www.haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html |
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| − | == What is this hidden package? == |
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| − | You build a package and get a message like: |
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| − | Could not find module `Data.Map': it is a member of package |
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| − | containers-0.1.0.0, which is hidden. |
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| − | </pre> |
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| − | or |
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| − | <pre> |
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| − | Failed to load interface for `GHC.Prim': |
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| − | it is a member of the hidden package `ghc-prim' |
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| − | Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. |
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| − | </pre> |
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| − | This is because the package has not been updated for ghc-6.8 which has split the base package into lots of smaller packages. The package needs to be updated to say that it depends on these new split base packages, like containers, process and several others. |
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| − | If you just want to get the package to build, add the missing package names to the build-depends: line in the .cabal file. For example given the above error message we would add the 'containers' package to the build-depends. (Alternatively, you can add the switch --ghc-options="-package hidden-package-name" to cabal.) |
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| − | Developers of packages who want to know how to update their package properly so that it will continue to work with old and new compilers should see [[Upgrading_packages]]. |
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| − | == [Windows] I tried to install a Haskell binding to (some external C library), but I get build errors == |
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| − | Packages consisting of 100% Haskell code almost always build perfectly on Windows. However, packages which implement bindings to external C libraries (e.g., OpenSSH, libSDL, etc.) sometimes won't build on Windows without prodding. |
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| − | # Check that the external C library is actually installed on your system. (Cabal does ''not'' do this for you.) |
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| − | # Check the package contents, package home page, etc., to see if the author has ''told'' you how to get this package to work on Windows. |
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| − | If those two fail to get you any further, proceed as follows: |
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| − | * Cabal probably needs to be able to find header files in order to compile the package. In future there will be some switches for the 'configure' step to allow you to specify the path to these. For now, you'll have to manually ''hack'' the Cabal information file to tell Cabal where to look. Try adding a line in the 'library' section saying something like <code>include-dirs: "C:\\Program Files\\My External Library\\include"</code> (Note carefully the quotes and double backslashes!) Obviously the actual path varies depending on where you installed the thing. |
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| − | * Cabal may also need to find object files that need to be statically linked. Again, a future Cabal release will allow you to specify these during the configure state with switches, but for now try adding <code>extra-lib-dirs: "C:\\Program Files\\My External Library\\lib"</code> or similar. |
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| − | * Assuming you get your library to compile, you may still need to add DLLs or other resources to your PATH variable to get any programs ''using'' the package to actually run. (But the installer for the external library might have done this for you already.) |
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| − | == My package repository seems to be in an inconsitent state. What can i do? == |
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| − | TODO |
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