[Haskell-beginners] Deploying a haskell application (not a webapp)

[Alan Buxton]

Hi mateusz yes thanks for this. You've basically hit the nail on the head
with that summary "teach your program how to find them".
On 17 Dec 2014 14:17, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/16/2014 03:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > On 12/16/2014 08:47 AM, Alan Buxton wrote:
> >> Hiya
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It turned out that my issue was to do with the data files. When
> >> compiling locally, cabal puts the files in /home/alan/.cabal/share and
> >> the compiled application expects to find the files there. So when I
> >> deploy my binary I have to also put some files into
> >> /home/alan/.cabal/share which feels wrong.
> >
> > If you list the data files in Cabal's "data-files" field, and you use
> > Cabal to build on the server, then you can ask Cabal where it put those
> > files at runtime:
> >
> >
> https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#accessing-data-files-from-package-code
> >
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> Pretty sure the whole point of this thread is that the OP does not want
> to build on the server.
>
> Personally I have inlined some data files into the source directly at
> compile time with Template Haskell: no hassle at run-time about finding
> the files, no hassle with copying them over to the target machine… Of
> course this might not cut it if your files are huge or are meant to be
> more dynamic. If that's the case then you should copy the data files
> along with the binary and teach your program how to find them.
>
> --
> Mateusz K.
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