runhaskell Setup install Setup error - haskell

I am trying to install packages from haskell's Hackage using Cabal.
In particular, I am trying to download the gloss package:
cabal install gloss
Comes up with this error:
binary-0.7.1.0 failed during the building phase.
The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
bmp-1.2.5.2 depends on binary-0.7.1.0 which failed to install.
gloss-1.8.1.1 depends on binary-0.7.1.0 which failed to install.
I also tried binary-0.6.0.0. Because cabal install is not working, I am trying:
runhaskell Setup configure
runhaskell Setup build
runhaskell Setup install
...in the directory of the package, and I get the same error for every package:
Setup: Error: Could not find module: Data.Binary with any suffix: ["hi"] in
the search path: ["dist/build"]
I am also having trouble installing the newest version of Cabal.
cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.3
Mac OSX 10.8 on MacBook Pro Retina

The binary package fails to install on latest versions of osx because osx uses clang instead of gcc, and 'gcc' is usually just a symlink to clang. gcc is used in the pre-processor stage (haskell supports c-like macros) but clang does not support all the features for the pre-processor stage that gcc supports.
To know if this is your problem, type 'gcc' in the terminal. If it says 'clang' somewhere, then this is the issue.
The solution is to get gcc, and replace the symlink to gcc with real gcc. Using 'runhaskell' will still have the same issue. For the most part, you should never try to install packages without cabal, it is by far the easiest way.

This is not an answer.
If you have downloaded package binary-0.7.1.0, you can untar it first, and go into that folder, and run
cabal configure
cabal build
cabal install
There must be more error message, such as line number, but I didn't see it.

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cabal install ghc impossible happened: heap overflow

I'm trying to follow along with the Plutus Pioneer lectures, and I'm getting this error
My system:
Ubuntu Linux Docker image running on MacOS.
I installed the Haskell package on the image from here: https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html
using this line in my Dockerfile: RUN apt-get install -y haskell-platform
This seems to install Cabal version 2.4.
When I clone the code repository for the lectures: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program and then go to the week01 directory and try cabal build like in the lecture, I get dependencies not found errors. The first missing dependency is 'aeson', which seems to install if I run cabal install aeson.
The subsequent build attempts fail on dependency 'base' being the wrong version.
Then I thought maybe if I update Cabal to version 3.4 it might help, so I tried cabal install cabal-install, but this also has errors:
Theexception was:ExitFailure (-9)
This may be due to an out-of-memory condition.
So I googled some more and tried this command line: cabal install --ghc-options="+RTS -M600M" -j1 cabal-install from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/46148345/52236
This seems to get further, but now I'm at this error:
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
(GHC version 8.6.5 for x86_64-unknown-linux): heap overflow
If anyone has any idea how to fix this it would be appreciated. Do I need to add more RAM to my Docker Ubuntu image? It currently has 1.9GB of memory and 1.7GB free.
thanks,
m
I fixed this by increasing the RTS param:
cabal install --ghc-options="+RTS -M1000M" -j1 cabal-install
Well, actually it compiled everything, but cabal --version still says 2.4, not 3.4. There was this warning too:
Warning: could not create a symlink in /root/.cabal/bin for cabal because the
file exists there already but is not managed by cabal. You can create a
symlink for this executable manually if you wish. The executable file has been
installed at /root/.cabal/bin/cabal

Issue installing Snap on macOS Sierra

I'm having trouble installing the Haskell framework Snap on macOS Sierra. Whenever I install it, I get the following message:
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring securemem-0.1.9...
Configuring skein-1.0.9.4...
Configuring configurator-0.3.0.0...
Configuring cryptonite-0.24...
Building configurator-0.3.0.0...
Building securemem-0.1.9...
Building skein-1.0.9.4...
Failed to install configurator-0.3.0.0
Build log ( /Users/nicholas/.cabal/logs/ghc-8.2.1/configurator-0.3.0.0-6dySPcNCURWFswtMXJvzho.log ):
cabal: Entering directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-66175/configurator-0.3.0.0'
Configuring configurator-0.3.0.0...
Preprocessing library for configurator-0.3.0.0..
Building library for configurator-0.3.0.0..
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id attoparsec-0.13.2.0-5dp4kBDsiGY4dQpLKbD5rk:
attoparsec-0.13.2.0-5dp4kBDsiGY4dQpLKbD5rk is unusable due to shadowed dependencies:
scientific-0.3.5.1-L0qYzdp0wpz8rO8gircNSR text-1.2.2.2-EGUst8sqNAZCw1xLPcmcMH
(use -v for more information)
cabal: Leaving directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-66175/configurator-0.3.0.0'
Configuring transformers-base-0.4.4...
Building cryptonite-0.24...
Building transformers-base-0.4.4...
Installed securemem-0.1.9
Installed transformers-base-0.4.4
Installed skein-1.0.9.4
Installed cryptonite-0.24
Updating documentation index
/Users/nicholas/Library/Haskell/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.2.1/index.html
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
configurator-0.3.0.0-6dySPcNCURWFswtMXJvzho failed during the building phase.
The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
snap-1.0.0.2-5CZKyA9EY4oLgkpHYCVfnv depends on snap-1.0.0.2 which failed to
install.
I'm using the Haskell Platform installed using homebrew (brew cask install haskell-platform), and cabal version 2.0.0.2. I have tried using sudo and deleting my ~/.ghc file
There was an issue with full 8.2.1 binary platform builds that's just been resolved: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2017-October/127979.html
This was likely an instance of that.
(see also: GHC cannot find libraries on fresh install of Haskell-Platform)
This looks like a bug in Cabal 2 (or potentially GHC 8.2). See https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4728. I'd recommend sticking to GHC 8.0.2 for the moment with either cabal 1.24 or Stack. I'm the case of Stack, the version won't matter, since it will use the Cabal version shipped with GHC.

cabal cabal-install error in Ubuntu 14.04

I followed the procedure here for installing GHC and cabal, and then for ghc-mod.
But, I get this error at this step
cabal update && cabal install cabal-install
Configuring cabal-install-1.24.0.2... Failed to install
cabal-install-1.24.0.2 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cabal-install-1.24.0.2 failed during the configure step. ExitFailure
11
If you install haskell-platform via apt-get, version of ghc is under 7.10.3 until yakkety (Ubuntu 16.10).
This is problematic because cabal-1.24 requires ghc >= 8.0.1.
To solve this
install more recent version of ghc from its code,
just use stack and ghc-mod for stack.
P.S. if you are emacsen, I recommand you to use intero (site) instead of ghc-mod.

Exit Code 11 installing Persistent (Yesod)

I'm trying to install Yesod on my Mac (running Mavericks), but installation fails because of an error installing Persistent. Specifically, cabal install persistent yields:
Failed to install persistent-1.3.0.2
Updating documentation index /Users/Max/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
persistent-1.3.0.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 11
(The full output is available as a gist)
I don't think this is an issue with conflicts, because I ran rm -rf ~/.ghc ~/.cabal before trying this (though I think 3 globally installed packages might not have been erased—unsure).
I'm using the latest Haskell Platform with the ghc-clang-wrapper script.
Cabal versions:
$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library
GHC version:
$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.3
Reinstalling Haskell platform allowed me to install Persistent, but the real issue was that I needed to install gcc48. Installing this cleared everything up. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21285413/1176156

installing reactive banana-wx or wx on redhat based linux with ghc 7.0.4

hi i'm trying to install, (without having to update or install the latest compiler),reactive-banana-wx and one of the requirement's are failing
cabal install reactive-banana-wx
and heres the error
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.4...
setup: failed
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
reactive-banana-wx-0.6.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install.
wx-0.90.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install.
wxc-0.90.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
wxcore-0.90.0.3 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install
when i try to cabal install wxcore ,wx or wxc they all say failed and point towards wxc being required.
here's the error
cabal install wxc
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/Setup.hs, /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/Main.o )
Linking /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/setup ...
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.4...
setup: failed
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wxc-0.90.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
here's my compiler info if it would be useful
ghc -v
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 7.0.4, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 7.0.4
I've got the same error trying to install phooey with ghc 7.4.1 on Debian tonight. The reason is a bug in the package wxc-0.90.0.4 and it should affect all wxHaskell-based packages. You can fix it, there is no need to downgrade your wxc package...
The easiest way to reproduce it is to do
cabal install wxc
or
cabal install glade
It might be a good idea to make sure that all prerequisites are in place, before you do it. wxc depends on a number of cabal and Linux packages and all of them should be installed and compiled... I did it in the most stupid way possible, just by running
cabal install wxc
and reading error messages which it spills out. This sweetie usually tells you what it wants... For instance, if it complains about cabal package x, just do cabal install x. If it complains about Linux package y, then use your Linux package manager and install the development version of this package, which is called normally lib<y>-dev in Debian. So, for instance, if
cabal install wxc
gives you an error saying that package gtk+2.0 is missing, you want to do
apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
The same story with cairo, glade2 and other GTK-related libraries
When you are green with all prerequisites, you want to install wxWidgets-2.9, which is currently in the Development stage... so, it doesn't have any binaries for Linux and you should build it yourself. Download the source code from wxWidgets website and build it. It is pretty easy to do, just:
untar/unzip the source code to your favorite directory
run ./config
run ./make
If you are on wxc-0.90.0.4, at this moment you should encounter our little bug... To keep the long story short, it is in the file eljpen.cpp, which you can find in
~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/wxc/0.90.0.4/wxc-0.90.0.4.tar.gz
Open the archive, go to the line 159 in the file and replace *_ref = NULL; with _ref = NULL or anything else what makes more sense. Then recreate the archive in the same place with the fixed eljpen.cpp file in it.
run ./make
It should work now.
run sudo make install (normally, you should have root privileges to insatll wxWidgets library...).
after it is done try to do
cabal install wx
again. It should be working now. I guess, after that you can enjoy your reactive-banana-wx, wxHaskell, phooey, etc.
PS http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3576397&group_id=73133&atid=536845. Why didn't I find it earlier? :/
I'v solved this problem on Lubuntu 12.10 so:
sudo cabal info wx
Synopsis: wxHaskell
Versions available: 0.11.1.2, 0.12.1.4, 0.12.1.5, 0.12.1.6, 0.13.2,
0.13.2.1, 0.13.2.3, 0.90, 0.90.0.1 (and 11 others)
I picked out different versions of wxHaskell, but only 0.13.2.3 was right.
sudo cabal install wx-0.13.2.3
...and everything has compiled and installed. Then I could install:
sudo cabal install reactive-banana-wx -fbuildExamples
That's no depends on the version of your Glasgow Haskell Compiler or the sort of your Linux.

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