In my project I'm using a library that depends on two C packages: sqlite3 and libsqlite3-dev. I installed them using apt-get install and then build the project with stack build and everything works fine.
However, the stack build fails when used with nix with error message "* Missing C library: sqlite3". I understand that the nix enviroment is isolated and that I have to install it there. I tried installing it using nix-env -i sqlite3 but it returns error: selector ‘sqlite3’ matches no derivations. It looks it is missing in the channel (using nixpkgs-unstable).
Is there any way how use to use C libraries with stack and nix that are missing in the channel?
I am using nix because of a bug in IHaskell, otherwise I would be fine with just stack.
You need to add sqlite to your packages section in stack.yaml as follows:
nix:
enable: false
packages:
- sqlite
The enable: false is there so that Stack doesn't try to build with Nix by default. If you want this behaviour, remove that line.
There's an example of this here.
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I am new to GTK, but not to Haskell. I am currently running Arch linux.
I cloned gi-gtk-declarative, and did a checkout of the release-0.6.3 branch.
I tried compiling with both stack build and cabal v2-build all, and both fail on gi-glib with the following error:
> Unknown GIR element "docsection" when processing namespace "GLib", aborting.
How can I fix this? Is there a patched version of gi-glib?
This looks like an issue regarding version constraints:
gi-gtk-declarative depends on haskell-gi (>=0.21 && <0.24)
Looks like this issue was fixed on haskell-gi 0.24.4
As you can see, the author of gi-gtk-declarative needs to update his dependencies.
As a workaround, you can run stack build --allow-newer or cabal build --allow-newer which will bypass the version constraint.
I wanted to get going with Haskell a little bit and therefore took a look at the Spock framework. To start clean, I uninstalled everything Haskell related from my Arch Linux machine and installed ghcup, Cabal and Stack using the install scripts from their respective websites.
Now I want to follow Spock's Tutorial. Trying to install Spock globally with cabal install Spock as suggested gives me an error (abbreviated):
src/Web/Spock/Internal/Wire.hs:43:1: error:
Could not find module ‘Web.Routing.AbstractRouter’
Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.
|
43 | import Web.Routing.AbstractRouter
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cabal: Failed to build Spock-0.9.0.1. See the build log above for details.
I already found a question on reddit on the topic, but the solution does not apply because I'm not trying to use a specific version of the libraries as implied.
So I try to follow along and build only locally.
But when I reach the point where it says stack build --fast --pedantic, the build plan can not be constructed and Stack suggests to add another dependency, stm-containers. Doing so, I am presented with two additional suggestions for focus and primitive. When I add these, the plan fails again, this time without a simple solution:
In the dependencies for primitive-0.6.4.0:
base-4.13.0.0 from stack configuration does not match >=4.5 && <4.13 (latest matching version is 4.12.0.0)
needed due to Spock-example-0.1.0.0 -> primitive-0.6.4.0
I can do a little thing with Haskell, but with the build system(s), I am way out of my comfort zone. Help and hints appreciated. Oh, and all versions of course are the latest by the time of this post.
Due to incompatible versions of dependencies, Spock won't build with GHC 8.8 and above. A similar problem is described in Spock issue #149, though I'm not fully sure it is exactly the same incompatibility. The error you got from Stack hints at that, as base-4.13.0.0 is the version of base that is bundled with GHC 8.8. cabal-install failed in a more obscure way because, upon noting the incompatibility, it tries to solve the dependencies using older versions of Spock, eventually picking 0.9.0.1, attempting and, thanks to a missing version upper bound for the reroute dependency, failing to build it.
(Shortly after this answer was posted, the missing upper bound was retrofitted to the old Spock version, so attempting to reproduce the problem now will lead to an easier to understand failure.)
Casting the tutorial aside, the most straightforward way to use Spock given those complications is probably through cabal-install 3+. Begin by using ghcup to switch to GHC 8.6.5:
$ ghcup install 8.6.5
$ ghcup set 8.6.5
Then, create a blank project with cabal-install:
$ mkdir myproject
$ cd myproject
$ cabal init
Add Spock to the build-depends section of myproject.cabal:
build-depends: base >=4.12 && <4.13
, Spock == 0.13.*
Finally, you can run:
$ cabal build
Which will install Spock and its dependencies before building the project. (Note that you generally don't need to use cabal install to install libraries with cabal-install 3.)
It is presumably possible to make it work with Stack as well, by changing to the lts-14.27 resolver (the latest one that uses GHC 8.6.5), tracking down all dependency versions that need to be overriden (as you had began to do) and manually adding them to the extra-deps of stack.yaml.
I want to install the Haskell libary hip from https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hip by using stack. This does not work, because stack seems to not being able to install dependencies.
I have stack freshly installed by curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh, and stack --version gives me
Version 1.9.3, Git revision 40cf7b37526b86d1676da82167ea8758a854953b (6211 commits) x86_64 hpack-0.31.1
I have tried several things like another resolver, reinstalling different versions of stack, ghc or cabal.
I have tried stack new test, and inside the test folder, i wrote stack install hip.
I got the following error:
Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were
encountered:
In the dependencies for hip-1.5.3.0:
Chart must match >=1.5, but the stack configuration has no specified
version (latest matching version is 1.9)
Chart-diagrams must match >=1.5, but the stack configuration has no
specified version (latest matching version is 1.9)
needed since hip is a build target.
Some different approaches to resolving this:
* Consider trying 'stack solver', which uses the cabal-install solver to
attempt to find some working build configuration. This can be convenient
when dealing with many complicated constraint errors, but results may be
unpredictable.
* Recommended action: try adding the following to your extra-deps
in /home/jarek/Desktop/test/stack.yaml:
Chart-1.9#sha256:f41568b6b3704f66c2ec163295b430ab7d798f91de426c2d5aba747d1135cd9b
Chart-diagrams-1.9#sha256:cdd0c22d730e507f9644e690833096ee127302b5ff5e1571f6def419160a2642
Plan construction failed.
I expect something like:
Building dependencies...
Installing Chart-1.9
...
...
...
hip successfully installed.
Please tell me if i did not provide all infos necessary for you to help me with my problem.
Installing with the resolver lts-7.5 works.
Why not do what stack recommended?
Recommended action: try adding the following to your extra-deps
in /home/jarek/Desktop/test/stack.yaml:
Chart-1.9#sha256:f41568b6b3704f66c2ec163295b430ab7d798f91de426c2d5aba747d1135cd9b
Chart-diagrams-1.9#sha256:cdd0c22d730e507f9644e690833096ee127302b5ff5e1571f6def419160a
It's the easiest way to accomplish your goal.
Update: lts-10.10 is the most recent resolver to include hip. If you update your stack.yaml to use lts-10.10 and add hip in your .cabal file, you should be good to go.
I just installed Stack using
curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh
The install went fine but when trying to install Intero using Stack it fails
ffriis#BNEC02QR6Y0G8WN ~> stack install hlint intero
Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:
In the dependencies for intero-0.1.32:
ghc-8.4.4 from stack configuration does not match >=7.8 && <=8.4.3 (latest matching version is 8.4.3)
needed since intero is a build target.
Some different approaches to resolving this:
* Set 'allow-newer: true' in /Users/ffriis/.stack/config.yaml to ignore all version constraints and build anyway.
* Consider trying 'stack solver', which uses the cabal-install solver to attempt to find some working build configuration. This can be convenient when dealing with many complicated constraint
errors, but results may be unpredictable.
* Recommended action: try adding the following to your extra-deps in /Users/ffriis/.stack/global-project/stack.yaml:
ghc-8.4.3#sha256:07ee8fb5dab414c35f93d5d5afc1ecaa65a49c409346e5063436cc8b838cd754
Plan construction failed.
I've edited the file as instructed but I'm still getting the same error. What is the best way to resolve the problem?
Currently intero supports GHC 8.4.3, but stack is grabbing 8.4.4. Change your resolver to lts-12.14 in stack.yaml
I'm trying to set up Hakyll on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 instance, but I can't seem to get the Stack-based setup instructions right.
Starting out with stack install hakyll, I get:
Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:
In the dependencies for hakyll-4.9.3.0:
http-conduit-2.1.11 must match >=2.2 && <2.3 (latest applicable is 2.2.3)
Plan construction failed.
I got a similar error when tying to stack-install http-conduit-2.1.11, this time with:
Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:
In the dependencies for http-conduit-2.2.3:
http-client-0.4.31.2 must match >=0.5 && <0.6 (latest applicable is 0.5.5)
http-client-tls-0.2.4.1 must match >=0.3 && <0.4 (latest applicable is 0.3.3.1)
Plan construction failed.
After resolving dependencies for this (also using Stack), I tried once again to stack install http-conduit-2.1.11, but I once again got the same dependency error.
The packages http-client-0.4.31.2 and http-client-tls-0.2.4.1 appear in my ~/.stack/precompiled/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1/1.24.0.0/, which isn't explicitly in my $PATH, however that feels like an extremely hacky solution, and I haven't found any documentation recommending this approach.
How can I correctly install Hakyll on my machine?
Dependency management with stack is meant to be reproducible and declarative, that means that a stack project will only compile once all dependencies are recorded in the .cabal file(s) of the project and once the stack.yaml of the project defines versions for these dependencies either in the resolver or the extra-deps section.
Your confusion seems to stem from a misunderstanding of what stack install does. The command line help has this to say about it:
build Build the package(s) in this directory/configuration
install Shortcut for 'build --copy-bins'
...
--[no-]copy-bins Enable/disable copying binaries to the local-bin-path
(see 'stack path')
stack install does not save any dependencies.
So the proper way of making hakyll available as a dependency to your code is:
Create a proper stack project with stack init if you already have a Cabal package, or stack new if you don't.
Add hakyll to the library or executable build-depends in your .cabal file.
Attempt to stack build and follow the instructions in any error messages until all issues are resolved.
A simpler solution than #sjakobi's in this case was to specify a resolver as a command line option when starting a new Stack project:
stack install hakyll --resolver=5.11 --install-ghc