On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:28:39AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:05 -0700, John Velman wrote: > > I'm on OS X Leopard 10.5.8, using ghc 6.10.4 from Haskell Platform. > > > > I'm trying to get a static .a library, callable from C, that I can use in > > an OS X Cocoa program. I've tried a very simple case (the one in Haskell > > Wiki Tutorials,"calling haskell from C") I've managed to make a Mac Cocoa > > application by adding the ghc generated .o program, plus adding one by one > > the needed Haskell libraries for "symbol not found" to my Xcode project. > > There should be a better way. > > > > I've tried just about everything I could find on creating Haskell > > libraries, with no joy. My latest try is to use Cabal, following advice > > found both in "How to write a Haskell program" and the Cabal users guide. > > > > My output from cabal -v configure tells me, among others: > > Is that the full command you ran? No other flags or arguments? I'm > assuming you're using cabal-install version 0.6.2. >
I checked results that I kept, and that was the full command. As I recall, ghc-pkg didn't report any problem, but I don't recall whether or not it listed in {}'s. After posting this message, (and waiting for a while), I tinkered considerably with my installation without any better results. I then uninstalled, and reinstalled Haskell Platform. I then went back to documenting what I actually did to get a working Cocoa with Haskell function program running. I'll try to redo the cabal version of library creation carefully, and check the things you mention below, after I finish my documentation of my Cocoa with Haskell test case. Thanks, John V. > According to the source it only produces that error in response to a top > level constraint passed on the command line. It internally adds such a > dependency, to make sure the solver never tries to pick a version of > base from hackage. The problem could be that your base package is broken > (missing dependencies) and thus the constraint on an installed base > cannot be satisfied. > > When you run ghc-pkg list base, does it list it in {}'s? Does ghc-pkg > check report any problems? > > Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe