On Nov 28, 2007 1:11 PM, manu
Hello
I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting)
Well, I am giving up ! I seriously regret replacing ghc-6.6 with ghc-6.8, I didn't expect that building packages would be so ... unsucessfull and time-wasting.
I just thought I'd let you know what's in store for "PHP-style-users- like-me" who want to use a database with ghc-6.8.1 at the moment, the hurdle is high !
I hope these packages will be fixed soon (I can't figure how to fix them myself obviously).
And now I'm going to stay away from my computer for a while :)
cheerio
M
Hi Manu, I built HSQL MySQL on Windows using GHC-6.8.1. I had to replace the Setup.lhs file be able to build with Cabal-1.2.2.0 (I found a working one on the web) and had to modify the cabal file (build-depends list). If you're interested I attached a copy of the two files. HSQL also comes with a SQLite module but I didn't tried it. The problems I encountered when compiling using GHC 6.8.1 are almost always the same and are very well described in this document: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages. Usually you just have to adapt the build-depends list and change the imports of Data.ByteString.Base which was split in Internal and Usafe. It sometimes requires some try/error iterations. Using this information I was able to build many modules on Win32 / GHC 6.8.1without problems (HTTP, HaXmL, polyparse, exif, gtk2hs, hxt, regex-pcre, compact-string). It can be more complicated when the package do not use a simple build script (as was the case for HSQL). Best regards, Olivier.