I am trying to build gstreamer using gst-build: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build
Glib is one of the subprojects it is downloading and compile. But I am thinking of replacing it with the previously compiled version. How should I do it in the cross-file? Or there is no way other than hacking meson.build
Thanks
Regrds
It depends on the discovery methods that dependency supports, if it uses pkg-config, it's probably as easy as setting [built-in options]:pkg_config_path in your cross file (or the various $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variables) to include the pkg-config file. I'm pretty sure that glib uses pkg-config.
I'm attempting to compile a Haskell project on Windows with profiling enabled, using the following command.
ghc --make -O -prof -fprof-auto game_dangerous.hs
I develop the project myself and the same source code compiled and linked fine without profiling. As expected (from previous experience) I ran into a number of errors of the form:
Could not find module `Data.Vector.Mutable'
Perhaps you haven't installed the profiling libraries for package `vector-0.12.0.2'?
I proceeded to iteratively reinstall packages based on the errors encountered using for example:
cabal install -p vector --reinstall
Cabal kept giving me warnings about possibly breaking packages with the reinstalls but I pressed on as (as far as I could see) every package that could be broken was going to get reinstalled itself as I moved through the tree of dependencies. Also, I've previously followed the same process on another machine and it worked fine. After reinstalling all the required packages my project now compiles but the linker fails with this error:
C://Program Files//Haskell Platform//8.6.3//mingw//bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lHSsemigroups-0.18.5-8pPnWqWrcWhEagTFf5Pnk2_p
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`gcc.exe' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
However, the build does complete successfully without profiling enabled. Does anyone know what may have gone wrong and how to fix the issue? Thanks in advance.
Steven
I would try making a .cabal file for your program, where you explicitly specify the cabal packages your program depends on and use cabal v2-build to compile your program. It will warn you about missing dependencies of your program until you include them all in build-depends section of the .cabal file. You only need to include the dependencies of your program, not the dependencies of the dependencies. After that you can add cabal.project.local to enable profiling and maybe something else. It should be enough to run cabal v2-build to build your program and packages it depends on with profiling(and other options in the cabal.project.local) enabled.
You need to have profiling enabled in the packages used by your program to support profiling in it. Cabal v2 builds allows you to have multiple instances of the same package. Those instances are different because different flags and options have been used to build them.
It is possible to achieve the same result using a separate package database for your program. That is using ghc-pkg with --package-db option.
Another option is to use stack. It will solve the same issues, but differently at the cost of more space and some performance penalties in ghc(compared to ghc built from source which can be used with cabal).
I'm trying to compile a Haskell source package as a dynamic library to be used with OCaml code. I tried using the --enable-shared option with cabal install on the .cabal file of the source, I got a Perhaps you haven't installed the "dyn" libraries for package 'zeromq4-haskell-0.6.5' error. After a little googling, I realised that the dependencies must also be compiled as dynamic libraries. I downloaded the source package for zeromq and tried installing the zeromq package with the --enable-shared option. This time I got a similar error with one of zeromq's dependencies. I tried doing this 4-5 times and get an error with a different dependency at each level.
Am I making a mistake here? How can I get all of the dependencies to install as dynamic libraries?
Thanks!
If you generally want to have shared libraries, you can permanently enable it in your .cabal/config:
shared: True
However, it will only affect libraries installed after that, so you may want to purge all libraries and start over again.
If this is just a one-shot, you may create a cabal sandbox just for that purpose:
cd yourlib
cabal sandbox init
cabal install --enable-shared
The result will be in the directory .cabal-sandbox.
Recently I was trying to install llvm-general-3.5.1.0 package.. for about a week. Basically I am getting this error: link. My situation is identical. Windows 10, ghc 7.10.2, cabal 1.22.4.0. I installed llvm 3.5.2 from sources with cmake and everything went fine. In llvm/lib directory I have *.lib files (eg. LLVMAnalysis.lib).
But somehow cabal can't see those libraries and gives this frustrating error:
Configuring llvm-general-3.5.1.0...
setup.exe: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
* Missing C libraries: LLVMLTO, LLVMObjCARCOpts, LLVMLinker, LLVMipo,
LLVMVectorize, LLVMBitWriter, LLVMCppBackendCodeGen, LLVMCppBackendInfo,
LLVMTableGen, LLVMDebugInfo, LLVMOption, LLVMX86Disassembler,
LLVMX86AsmParser, LLVMX86CodeGen, LLVMSelectionDAG, LLVMAsmPrinter,
LLVMX86Desc, LLVMX86Info, LLVMX86AsmPrinter, LLVMX86Utils, LLVMJIT,
LLVMIRReader, LLVMAsmParser, LLVMLineEditor, LLVMMCAnalysis,
LLVMMCDisassembler, LLVMInstrumentation, LLVMInterpreter, LLVMCodeGen,
LLVMScalarOpts, LLVMInstCombine, LLVMTransformUtils, LLVMipa, LLVMAnalysis,
LLVMProfileData, LLVMMCJIT, LLVMTarget, LLVMRuntimeDyld, LLVMObject,
LLVMMCParser, LLVMBitReader, LLVMExecutionEngine, LLVMMC, LLVMCore,
LLVMSupport
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.
I really want to use this package on my Windows, but nothing seems to work (I tried everything like --extra-lib-dirs and compiled also with MinGW and VS - the same problem).
I can't accept the fact that it won't install. I mean, there must be some way to fix Setup.hs from this cabal package or something. Does anyone have an idea what can be wrong with cabal in this case and how can I try to workaround this? I don't know how exactly cabal works, maybe someone with this knowledge will have an idea? Or maybe there is a way to do this without cabal?
Ok, i've managed to build it and, i think, found the root of the issue.
First, steps to build:
Get the MinGW. My installation of MinGW has gcc 4.8.
Get 32-bit MinGHC.
Compile LLVM 3.5 with MinGW's gcc and install it somewhere.
Copy contents of MinGW installation directory into MinGHC Install
Dir\ghc-7.10.2\mingw, replacing conflict files.
In the command line set your PATH so it has haskell toolset from
MinGHC (i recommend using switch .bat scripts) and llvm-config.exe.
Get the llvm-general package source either using cabal fetch or
downloading via browser from hackage.
Replace cc-options: -std=c++11 line of llvm-general.cabal with
cc-options: -std=gnu++11.
Finally, cabal configure and cabal build should work.
I have been changing my build environment many times, so if this doesn't work for you let me know, i probably forgot something.
Now let's go into details.
What we thought is a bug of cabal is not, actually. The problem is that both stack and MinGHC (and Haskell Platform, i guess) use quite old gcc - 4.6. This gcc has even two defects:
It doesn't support -std=c++11 and LLVM 3.5 can't be built using it.
As a consequence, this gcc can't be used by ghc when compiling
llvm-general, because it can't parse LLVM headers properly.
Even if it could, its linker can't link against LLVM libs compiled by
MinGW using gcc 4.8. This is why cabal was telling you it
couldn't find LLVM libs. I've hacked Setup.hs so that it wouldn't
look for these libs, but pass -lLLVMSomething to linker via -pgml
ghc option. This lead to clear error message:
ld.exe: ignoring libLLVMSupport.a ...
ld.exe: can't find -lLLVMSupport
So, the cabal was actually finding these libs, but was dropping them because they couldn't be linked to.
Ideally, the solution would be to update mingw distribution used by stack/MinGHC. But as a workaround you can just replace old gcc with new one.
Finally, -std=gnu++11 is used because current MinGW release is affected by this bug, which prevents compilation of c++ bits of the package. Whew, that was a long way.
Trying to follow the solution proposed in the answer to reducing haskell's binary question, I keep getting the error, when I install with --enable-shared option:
> cabal install opengl --enable-shared --reinstall
...
Could not find module `Prelude'
Perhaps you haven't installed the "dyn" libraries for package `base'?
Tried everything. I'm using apt-get installedhaskell-platform (with ghc 7.4.1), on Ubuntu 12.04, 64bit.
ANY tips?
It seems that Ubuntu's Haskell platform doesn't include dynamic libraries.
You can try installing ghc-dynamic, that should work, I assume the distro packagers know what they're doing. You would probably need to install the *-dynamic packages for several libraries included in the platform too.
In case it doesn't work, the only suggestions I can make is to compile GHC yourself from source (using the installed GHC), or use a vanilla GHC bindist, those come with dynamic libraries, as far as I'm aware.
Both would require reinstalling (recompiling included) the libraries, though (perhaps best to compile the vanilla platform from source then), so I recommend trying the distribution packages first.