btw, this could be helpful, if you have some time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal_(software) http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ in there you maay find : http://www.haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html in which you can see ( hey !): Hidden packages (a)http://www.haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html#hidden-packages-a What is this hidden package? You're writing your own package and you get: Could not find module `Data.Map': it is a member of package containers-0.1.0.0, which is hidden. Hidden packages (b)http://www.haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html#hidden-packages-b You're building some other package and you get: Could not find module `Data.Map': it is a member of package containers-0.1.0.0, which is hidden. this is insteresting but maybe too advaced for now, may side track you. however may give you the big picture http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program besides, Howard, leksah is a small audience list, you may find more support on the cafe list, as your question as less leksah specific, but more on the "haskell bootstrapping procees" Ill copy you here, in case some good sould know some fast track ( btw , do you know about rwh : http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ especially http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/installing-ghc-and-haskell-libraries.h... ) 2010/8/25 HowardBrazee

Boy, am I dense.

I see two "depends" lines in Reading.cabal:

pkgconfig-depends: & build-depends: base -any

I uncommented out import qualified Data.Map as M

and looked at Lekah's message: src\Main.hs:19:17: Could not find module `Data.Map': It is a member of the hidden package `containers-0.3.0.0'. Perhaps you need to add `containers' to the build-depends in your .cabal file. Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.

So I put "containers" after one of the depends: build-depends: containers base -any

Leksah said: Setup: .\Reading.cabal has been changed, please re-configure. ========================================= Setup: Reading.cabal:9: Parse of field 'build-depends' failed. ========================================= Can't activate package C:\Documents and Settings\brazee\My Documents \Code\Windows\Reading\Reading.cabal: 9: user error (Parse of field 'build-depends' failed.) Can't read package file

So I undid that change and did this instead: pkgconfig-depends: containers

I got the following: Can't read package file Setup: .\Reading.cabal has been changed, please re-configure. ========================================= Configuring Reading-0.0.1... Setup: pkg-config version >=0.9.0 is required but it could not be found. ========================================= The job now runs with these unused imports.

I never found "build-depends" in my cabal file.

I edited this with ultra-edit as I know how to get to it.

I'm still clueless about what I did, despite being told by two different people what to do and not being able to follow the directions, but doing trial and error instead. Even after I finished, I don't understand the directions.