It appears that this is a problem related to ghc: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578509 I am using ghc 7.0.3 which comes with the latest Ubuntu (11.10). Would installing the latest ghc release help? On 10 March 2012 12:50, Aditya Manthramurthy wrote:

HI,

I am learning haskell by writing small programs. In this instance I want to write a program using the haskell binding of the NCurses library.

Here is the (rather simple) code:

import UI.NCurses

main = do putStrLn "Hello World"

When I try to run it:

$ runhaskell cursesprog.hs cursesprog.hs: <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: ncursesw (/usr/lib/libncursesw.so: file too short)

The file certainly exists but is only 32 bytes. I installed from Ubuntu's package manager. I am working on a 64 bit machine (if that helps).

Can someone help me fix this?

Thanks, Aditya.