Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC

Eureeka! Your info helped...I can't thank you enough... I can now connect to the database shown in "Real World Haskell" - I was just about ready to give up... Now if I can only get GTK and my Mac to work...well we'll start that tomorrow...enuf to do today... Thank you Ps If anyone want to get a task force started in regard to installing Sqlite3 and GTK, I'll definitely participate... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick LeBoutillier" To: "Kathleen Lynch" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC Kathleen, Grab this: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-dll-win32-x86-3070500.zip Extract the sqlite3.dll file from inside, copy it to c:\users\user and to c:\windows\system32 Grab: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3070500.tar.gz Extract the sqlite3.h file from inside, copy it to c:\users\user Then

cabal install HDBC-sqlite3 --extra-include-dirs=C:\Users\User --extra-lib-dirs=C:\Users\User

should work. I have only installed it though, I didn't run it. Patrick On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Kathleen Lynch wrote:

...I put it in my PATH [C:\users\user] and put the file Sqlite3 in that folder [C:\users\user] where I'm running Cabal and extended the Cabal command as follows - nothing helps... cabal install HDBC-sqlite3 --extra-include-dirs=C:\Users\User --extra-lib-dirs=C:\Users\User

...At this point, I'm unable to install Sqlite3 and GTK...

...I know this is 'open source' but it really shouldn't be this hard to do these installations...

...I'll go back to my Monads and see if I can figure them out and then take a look at F# - I might have better luck there...

Bye

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Fischer" To: "Kathleen Lynch" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:20:22, Kathleen Lynch wrote:

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I entered the command you gave me: cabal install HDBC-sqlite3 It returned the following error: Resolving dependencies... Configuring HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.1.0... cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing C library: sqlite3

That means you don't have the C library installed, or at least that cabal can't find it. You have to install it otherwise or put it in a directory in your %PATH%. I'm not familiar with Windows, so I can't tell you how to do that. You could search on the haskellwiki, perhaps there are instructions there.

...

I then went to the link you provided: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HDBC-sqlite3 I extracted the tar file, HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.1.0.tar, and tried to un-tar it but get the following message: "Error reading header after processing 0 entries"

If cabal complains about a missing foreign dependency, trying a manual install won't help, runhaskell ./Setup configure won't look anywhere cabal doesn't.

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