[Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC

[Daniel Fischer]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:20:22, Kathleen Lynch wrote:
> I entered the command you gave me: cabal install HDBC-sqlite3
> It returned the following error:
>     Resolving dependencies...
>     Configuring HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.1.0...
>     cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
>     * Missing C library: sqlite3

That means you don't have the C library installed, or at least that cabal 
can't find it. You have to install it otherwise or put it in a directory in 
your %PATH%. I'm not familiar with Windows, so I can't tell you how to do 
that. You could search on the haskellwiki, perhaps there are instructions 
there.

>
> I then went to the link you provided:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HDBC-sqlite3
> I extracted the tar file, HDBC-sqlite3-2.3.1.0.tar, and tried to un-tar
> it but get the following message:
>     "Error reading header after processing 0 entries"

If cabal complains about a missing foreign dependency, trying a manual 
install won't help, runhaskell ./Setup configure won't look anywhere cabal 
doesn't.