How do you find out which version(s) of a particular library includes a given definition? In my case, I noticed that gloss fails to install with the GLFW backend...
Graphics\Gloss\Internals\Interface\Backend\GLFW.hs:12:45: error:
Module `Graphics.UI.GLFW' does not export `WindowValue(..)'
cabal: Leaving directory 'C:\Users\Jonatan\AppData\Local\Temp\cabal-tmp-
22520\gloss-1.11.1.1'
... so I'd like to find out when WindowValue was removed. I've tried Hoogle, Stackage and Hayoo, with no luck.
WindowValue was last seen in GLFW-b-0.1.0.5.
I don't understand what is up with the version bounds in gloss, they somehow require GLFW-b ≥ 1.4.1, which makes no sense.
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I'm trying to include a specific version of a library in a Haskell project. The library is bed-and-breakfast (which is used for martix operations), but I need the specific version 0.4.3 which fixed a bug with the multiplication implementation.
So, my stack.yaml looks like this:
flags: {}
extra-package-dbs: []
packages:
- .
extra-deps:
- bed-and-breakfast-0.4
- base-4.6.0.1
resolver: lts-12.8
But I'm getting this error when building:
Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:
In the dependencies for bed-and-breakfast-0.4:
base-4.11.1.0 from stack configuration does not match >=4.5 && <4.7 (latest matching version
is 4.6.0.1)
needed due to realworldhaskell-0.1.0.0 -> bed-and-breakfast-0.4
Some different approaches to resolving this:
* Set 'allow-newer: true' 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 C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\stack.yaml:
- base-4.6.0.1
I've done the recommended action but it didn't solve anything. I've tried using different resolvers to see if it's an issue with my GHCi version but nothings worked. What is the best way to interpret error messages like this and how should I proceed?
EDIT:
If I remove -base.4.6.0.1 and add allow-newer: true I get this:
WARNING: Ignoring out of range dependency (allow-newer enabled): base-4.11.1.0. bed-and-breakfast requires: >=4.5 && <4.7
bed-and-breakfast-0.4: configure
Progress 1/2
-- While building custom Setup.hs for package bed-and-breakfast-0.4 using:
C:\sr\setup-exe-cache\x86_64-windows\Cabal-simple_Z6RU0evB_2.2.0.1_ghc-8.4.3.exe --builddir=.stack-work\dist\7d103d30 configure --with-ghc=C:\Users\info\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\ghc-8.4.3\bin\ghc.EXE --with-g
hc-pkg=C:\Users\info\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\ghc-8.4.3\bin\ghc-pkg.EXE --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=C:\sr\snapshots\76fd1958\pkgdb --package-db=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\
.stack-work\install\8c390635\pkgdb --libdir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\lib --bindir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\bin --datadir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Proj
ects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\share --libexecdir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\libexec --sysconfdir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\etc --docdir=C:
\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\doc\bed-and-breakfast-0.4 --htmldir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\doc\bed-and-breakfast-0.4 --haddockdir=C:\Users\info\Desktop\Pr
ojects\haskell\.stack-work\install\8c390635\doc\bed-and-breakfast-0.4 --dependency=array=array-0.5.2.0 --dependency=base=base-4.11.1.0 --dependency=binary=binary-0.8.5.1 --dependency=deepseq=deepseq-1.4.3.0 --dependency=template-hask
ell=template-haskell-2.13.0.0 --extra-include-dirs=C:\Users\info\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\msys2-20150512\mingw64\include --extra-lib-dirs=C:\Users\info\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\msys2-20150512\min
gw64\bin --extra-lib-dirs=C:\Users\info\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\msys2-20150512\mingw64\lib --exact-configuration
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Logs have been written to: C:\Users\info\Desktop\Projects\haskell\.stack-work\logs\bed-and-breakfast-0.4.log
Configuring bed-and-breakfast-0.4...
Cabal-simple_Z6RU0evB_2.2.0.1_ghc-8.4.3.exe: The package has an impossible
version range for a dependency on an internal library: bed-and-breakfast
==0.3.2. This version range does not include the current package, and must be
removed as the current package's library will always be used.
EDIT 2:
Ok, so I'm guessing that the bed-and-breakfast library needs base 4.11.1.0 which is included in GHCi 6.10.2 (according to https://wiki.haskell.org/Base_package) so I need a resolver which matches that GHCi version. Where can I find out what resolver version that is?
Here is the constraint on the latest available bed-and-breakfast package: base (>=4.5 && <4.7), which means it will likely not even compile with GHC version higher then 7.6. Considering that there is even no LTS snapshot prior to GHC 7.8, you are out of luck with that package.
To say it in another words, the package is outdated and your choices are:
submit an issue and hope maintainer will do something about it
try to make it work with newer ghc yourself
Use a different package
I am attempting to install the code for "Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming", 3rd edition.
I'm using GHCi, version 7.6.3 on Centos version 7.
Then:
cabal unpack Craft3e
cd Craft3e-0.1.1.0/
cabal install
...
[29 of 67] Compiling CalcParseLib ( Calculator/CalcParseLib.hs, dist/build/CalcParseLib.o )
Calculator/CalcParseLib.hs:132:10:
Not in scope: type constructor or class `Applicative'
Failed to install Craft3e-0.1.1.0
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Craft3e-0.1.1.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
I have attempted this installation multiple times, but cannot
overcome this error.
Could I use something other than "cabal install"?
I have plenty to learn about Haskell before I get to this example,
but it would be great to know the installation is fine! :)
You have three options:
Install an older version of the Craft3e package, with e.g. cabal unpack Craft3e-0.1.0.10.
Find Calculator/CalcParseLib.hs in the source files you have downloaded with cabal unpack and add a...
import Control.Applicative
... line next to the other import lines at the beginning. I suspect you will have to do the same with other modules, if the same error shows up elsewhere after you do this change, and there might be other issues of a similar nature.
Install a newer version of GHC (7.6.3 is from 2013). Though the default CentOS repositories won't offer that, there are other options, such as an unofficial Fedora repository and a manual installation. See this page for instructions.
#3 is the definitive solution. If you just want to get started with the book right now, though, you can go for #1 and leave the reinstall for later.
For the sake of reference, here is a brief explanation of the problem (I will use some unfamiliar terms, but you will soon enough learn about them as you study Haskell). There is an important type class called Applicative which, for historical reasons, wasn't as well integrated with the rest of the core libraries as it should be. This situation was corrected in GHC 7.10, which both included Applicative in the Prelude (the module which is imported by default in Haskell programs) and made it necessary to add Applicative instances in a number of places where they were missing. The code in the Craft3e package was updated so that these Applicative instances were in place (cf. this entry in the book's blog), but the import Control.Applicative line, which would be necessary to make the updated code work in older GHCs that do not have Applicative in the Prelude, wasn't added, leading to the error that you are seeing.
I have some familiarity with Haskell, the language, but not so much with the toolchain. (I played around with Haskell before cabal and stack existed.) I'm told that stack is the tool I should be using to manage Haskell projects. I'm trying to learn the haste library, and I'm getting stymied on the first tutorial I've tried, because I can't get hplayground installed. I created a stack project; my stack.yaml has
extra-deps:
- ghc-simple-0.3
- haste-compiler-0.5.3
- shellmate-0.2.3
- haste-perch-0.1.0.9
- hplayground-0.1.3.1
and my .cabal file has hplayground listed in the build-depends. But when I run stack build, I get these errors:
Configuring haste-perch-0.1.0.9...
Building haste-perch-0.1.0.9...
Preprocessing library haste-perch-0.1.0.9...
Haste/Perch.hs:17:15: Warning:
-XOverlappingInstances is deprecated: instead use per-instance pragmas OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPS
Haste/App/Perch.hs:18:15: Warning:
-XOverlappingInstances is deprecated: instead use per-instance pragmas OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPS
[1 of 2] Compiling Haste.App.Perch ( Haste/App/Perch.hs, .stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-1.22.4.0/build/Haste/App/Perch.o )
Haste/App/Perch.hs:61:15: Not in scope: ‘newTextElem’
Haste/App/Perch.hs:71:9:
Not in scope: ‘setAttr’
Perhaps you meant ‘jsSetAttr’ (imported from Haste.App)
Haste/App/Perch.hs:76:15:
Not in scope: ‘newElem’
Perhaps you meant one of these:
‘nelem’ (line 75), ‘notElem’ (imported from Prelude)
and a whole lot of similar errors. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
More broadly: what is a fast, easy way to get up and running with haste for someone who's not experienced with the Haskell toolchain?
Haste's event APIs got overhauled between the 0.4 and 0.5 series, and HPlayground is still on 0.4. If you want to use it, you will unfortunately have to fall back to 0.4 until HPlayground gets patched for 0.5.
For getting started in general, you should install the pre-build binaries if you're on a non-Linux platform (and probably if you're on a Linux platform as well, since you get man-pages and other niceties); the build process can be tricky and is prone to errors.
Once you've done that, you can refer to the docs and resources page on haste-lang.org, which contains links to API docs, video tutorials, source code examples and more.
Once you have installed ghc and cabal installed you will need to install the haste compiler as follows ( from http://haste-lang.org/downloads/ ):
$ cabal update
$ cabal install haste-compiler
$ haste-boot
After doing this, "hastec" ( the haste compiler ) should be available to use to compile haskell to javascript. In addition, "haste-cabal" ( the haste version of cabal ) should be available to use to install libraries such as haste-perch for use in your programs.
The readme file for haste-perch (https://github.com/agocorona/haste-perch) contains the instructions for installing haste-perch. Those instructions use "haste-inst" to install haste-perch but "haste-inst" is obsolete ( and no longer exists ). Use the modified instructions below to install haste-perch:
>git clone http://github.com/agocorona/haste-perch.git
>cd haste-perch
>haste-cabal install
I was able to install haste-perch and successfully build the example that it came with.
I also tried building hplayground but ran into compile problems that looked as if they were due to the code not being updated to use haste 0.5 . For example, "OnClick" was a valid identifier in earlier versions of haste but not anymore:
src/Haste/HPlay/View.hs:820:45:
Not in scope: data constructor ‘OnClick’
Perhaps you meant ‘Click’ (line 1017)
I'm creating simple web application using haskell. First I used Snap in front and I was able to run the application, but I want to add user input to the application.
I couldn't find a way to get user input parameters to the function. How might I do that?
Other thing, I also used Happstack framework, I can not import "Happstack.Server". I use cabal installation configure Happstack. It was successfully installed, but when I try to import to "Happstack.Server", it gives me an error:
<no location info>:
Could not find module `Happstack.Server':
it is not a module in the current program, or in any known package.
If I run my program using ghc --make HelloWorld.hs -v, I get:
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.12.1, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 6.12.1
Using binary package database: /usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/package.cache
Using binary package database: /home/udeshika/.ghc/i386-linux-6.12.1/package.conf.d/package.cache
package happstack-6.0.0-0f0c2507d590ebd01e8601c8667ec809 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
happstack-ixset-6.0.0-4e1b5476a551c4501c5734b22e0b280d happstack-server-6.0.3-6d71e7bb09489130538fb851a694b927 happstack-state-6.0.0-0e753e61d7092b6a5139e473113877a1 happstack-util-6.0.0-4156bd1331b7a0d62e0087101c9eba1c
package happstack-ixset-6.0.0-4e1b5476a551c4501c5734b22e0b280d is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
happstack-util-6.0.0-4156bd1331b7a0d62e0087101c9eba1c
package happstack-server-6.0.3-6d71e7bb09489130538fb851a694b927 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
happstack-util-6.0.0-4156bd1331b7a0d62e0087101c9eba1c hslogger-1.1.4-90c801c802eec92e4e6a6f83d24d58d9 network-2.2.1.7-72dad7eb07ee7a683982f7475b8a449f network-bytestring-0.1.3.4-937fd511949a2d5ef21e86ec5306c791 sendfile-0.7.3-137cf51cc81a277d724637a7cd1e6b09
package happstack-state-6.0.0-0e753e61d7092b6a5139e473113877a1 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
happstack-util-6.0.0-4156bd1331b7a0d62e0087101c9eba1c hslogger-1.1.4-90c801c802eec92e4e6a6f83d24d58d9
package happstack-util-6.0.0-4156bd1331b7a0d62e0087101c9eba1c is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
hslogger-1.1.4-90c801c802eec92e4e6a6f83d24d58d9 network-2.2.1.7-72dad7eb07ee7a683982f7475b8a449f
package hslogger-1.1.4-90c801c802eec92e4e6a6f83d24d58d9 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
...................
Snap's getParam function allows you to get HTTP request parameters specified by the user. These can come in the post body of a form submission or from the query string. For example, consider the following code:
site = dir "mypage" pageHandler
pageHandler = do
val <- getParam "foo"
writeBS $ maybe "no value" id val
If I request the url "myapp.com/mypage?foo=bar", then I will see "bar" as the response. If I leave off the "?foo=bar" part, then it will return "no value".
1) Check out that Happstack is actually installed and exposed:
ghc-pkg list | grep Happstack
2) What if you try to import Happstack.Server in ghci ?
3) Better use cabal-dev or capri for installing such things and making a sandbox
4) Snap and Yesod a quite new and they are under heavy development, Happstack is pretty
stable and solid.
5) What OS are you using? How did your installed the haskell? Ubuntu + haskell 6.12 + Happstack work out of the box
Regarding to the log, seems that cabal packages are messed up somehow. I recommend you to remove all packages from the .cabal and .ghc, reinstall cabal, then install cabal-dev as explained here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3ykj/psa_use_cabaldev_to_solve_dependency_problems/
and then have fun with Happstack. Some guys actually use capri, it works as well.
Your installation is messed up. Unfortunately, cabal does that sometimes.
Your best bet is use 'ghc-pkg unregister ' to remove all the happstack packages, hslogger, and sendfile. Make sure they are removed from the user and global package databases. (ghc-pkg list will show you what is installed). Once you have the old versions removed, do, cabal update and the cabal install happstack. Then things should work.
What do you mean by 'user input' ? Do you mean html forms? Or something else ?
This section of the crash course may address your needs:
http://www.happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/RqData.html
It is also possible to use digestive-functors with Happstack to get type-safe form processing. Unfortunately, this is not well documented yet. Though I believe the disgestive-functors source code does include a working Happstack example.
This is the output from cabal install codec-image-devil:
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring Codec-Image-DevIL-0.2.3...
cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
* Missing C library: IL
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
--extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Codec-Image-DevIL-0.2.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
I tried --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs. but they didn't work. so I edited the .cabal in Codec-Image-DevIL-0.2.3.tar.gz. I don't know if I'm even supposed to change that. but it worked for pthread.
I added these two lines:
include-dirs: C:\Users\Rumbold\Documents\libs\IL\include, C:\Users\Rumbold\Documents\libs\pthread\include, .
extra-lib-dirs: C:\Users\Rumbold\Documents\libs\IL\lib, C:\Users\Rumbold\Documents\libs\pthread\lib, .
They are indented so they are in the Library section. I don't know if I got the format for lists right, just something i stumbled upon while googling. The libs and `header files are all in the correct place, I think.
any clue how i can get it to work?
Edit_1:
I got it to work with --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs, so I don't need to edit the cabal anymore. but IL still doesn't work. is there a way to find out which files it's looking for?
Wdit_2:
Alright it works. I had to rename DevIL.lib and DevIL.dll to libIL.lib and libIL.dll. (not sure if I had to do both, but that's what I did. also kept them under their old names)
Edit_3:
Getting lots of errors like:
"cabal\Codec-Image-DevIL-0.2.3\ghc-6.12.3/libHSCodec-Image-DevIL-0.2.3.a(DevIL.o):fake:(.text+0x2379):
undefined reference to `ilGetInteger#4'"