[Haskell-cafe] Not in scope: type constructor or class

1 Jul 2006

      Folks,

I'm getting this error:

./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs:1:0:
     Not in scope: type constructor or class  
`HOC.Arguments:ObjCArgument'

But if you look through the output below you will see that  
HOC.Arguments is being loaded by ghc. I assume that's what the  
skipping of HOC.Arguments means.

The Arguments module starts like this so I believe it's exporting  
everything:

module HOC.Arguments where

import HOC.Base
import HOC.FFICallInterface

import Foreign.Storable
import Foreign.ForeignPtr
import Foreign.Ptr
import System.IO.Unsafe(unsafePerformIO)

import Language.Haskell.TH
import Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax

class (Storable b, FFITypeable b) => ObjCArgument a b | a -> b where
     withExportedArgument :: a -> (b -> IO c) -> IO c
     exportArgument :: a -> IO b
     importArgument :: b -> IO a

     objCTypeString :: a -> String

StdArgumentTypes.hs starts like this so you see that it's importing  
HOC.Arguments

module HOC.StdArgumentTypes where

import HOC.Base
import HOC.Invocation
import HOC.Arguments
import HOC.FFICallInterface

import Control.Exception        ( bracket )
import Foreign
import Foreign.C.Types
import Foreign.C.String

-- Objective C

-- ID: already defined

instance FFITypeable SEL where
     makeFFIType _ = makeFFIType (undefined :: Ptr ())

$(declareStorableObjCArgument [t| SEL |] ":")

instance ObjCArgument Bool CInt where
     exportArgument False = return 0
     exportArgument True = return 1
     importArgument 0 = return False
     importArgument _ = return True

     objCTypeString _ = "c"

The line 1 in the error below makes me guess that it could be a  
Template Haskell issue. Any pointers?

	Thanks, Joel

---
  ghc --make HOC.hs               -odir build/objects -hidir build/ 
imports                -fglasgow-exts -package-name HOC         ../ 
HOC_cbits/HOC_cbits.o                -I../HOC_cbits          -I../ 
libffi-src/build/include                    -framework Foundation -fth
Chasing modules from: HOC.hs
Skipping  HOC.SelectorNameMangling ( ./HOC/SelectorNameMangling.hs,  
build/objects/HOC/SelectorNameMangling.o )
Skipping  HOC.Base         ( ./HOC/Base.hs, build/objects/HOC/Base.o )
Skipping  HOC.FFICallInterface ( ./HOC/FFICallInterface.hs, build/ 
objects/HOC/FFICallInterface.o )
Skipping  HOC.Arguments    ( ./HOC/Arguments.hs, build/objects/HOC/ 
Arguments.o )Skipping  HOC.Utilities    ( ./HOC/Utilities.hs, build/ 
objects/HOC/Utilities.o )Skipping  HOC.Invocation   ( ./HOC/ 
Invocation.hs, build/objects/HOC/Invocation.o )
Skipping  HOC.MsgSend      ( ./HOC/MsgSend.hs, build/objects/HOC/ 
MsgSend.o )
Compiling HOC.StdArgumentTypes ( ./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs, build/ 
objects/HOC/StdArgumentTypes.o )
Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading object (static) ../HOC_cbits/HOC_cbits.o ... done
Loading object (framework) Foundation ... done
final link ... done
Loading package haskell98-1.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package template-haskell-1.0 ... linking ... done.

./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs:1:0:
     Not in scope: type constructor or class  
`HOC.Arguments:ObjCArgument'

./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs:1:0:
     `exportArgument' is not a (visible) method of class  
`Arguments:ObjCArgument'
./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs:1:0:
     `importArgument' is not a (visible) method of class  
`Arguments:ObjCArgument'
./HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs:1:0:
     `objCTypeString' is not a (visible) method of class  
`Arguments:ObjCArgument'

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[Haskell-cafe] Not in scope: type constructor or class

Joel Reymont