Hi Hok,

I know the problem and the only solution I found to work is using an 
older version of "cabal.exe". I still have one lying around for these 
cases, in my Path called "cabalOld.exe" and use it only in situations 
like these.

Lemme know if I should send it to you.

Günther


Am 25.05.10 21:05, schrieb Ben:
> i have this exact problem, on linux x86_64, as well.
>
> b
>
> Hok Shun Poon fushunpoon at googlemail.com
> Sun May 23 19:51:20 EDT 2010
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> Hello,
>
> This is a question about how cabal-install finds 'installed foreign
> libraries' when trying to satisfy dependencies for packages like
> hdbc-sqlite3 on Windows.
> Sadly, the current setup means that I must use Windows 7 to develop code.
>
> I've already followed steps on
> http://wiki.github.com/jgoerzen/hdbc/frequentlyaskedquestions to place the
> ..dll and the .h files in the correct places; it's just that cabal never
> seems to find it, despite being given --extra-lib-dirs= and
> --extra-include-dirs= directives.
>
> The message is as follows:
>
>> cabal install hdbc-sqlite3 --extra-lib-dirs=D:\dev\libs\database\sqlite
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.0.0...
> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
> * Missing C library: sqlite3
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package
> that provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library
> is already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use
> the flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it
> is.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.0.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
> The strangest thing is, I've successfully made cabal build this package
> before (with a different version of Haskell Platform)... what's going on?
>
> I'm using cabal-install version 0.8.2 and Cabal library version 1.8.0.2.
>
> Hok