[Haskell-beginners] cabal install glfw failing

[Martin Vlk]

Hi, I am trying to install the Euterpea library, which depends on glfw,
but it is failing to install with a compilation failure.

Could someone take a look at the error and tell me what might be wrong?

Many Thanks
Martin

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.10.1
cabal-install version 1.22.4.0
using version 1.22.3.0 of the Cabal library

$ cabal update
$ cabal install glfw

Resolving dependencies...
Configuring GLFW-0.5.2.2...
Failed to install GLFW-0.5.2.2
Build log ( /home/martin/.cabal/logs/GLFW-0.5.2.2.log ):
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
GLFW-0.5.2.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
user error ('/home/martin/.ghc/bin/ghc' exited with an error:

/tmp/GLFW-0.5.2.2-20349/GLFW-0.5.2.2/dist/setup/setup.hs:106:14:
No instance for (Applicative (StateT ConfState IO))
arising from a use of ‘modify’
In the expression: modify
In the expression:
modify $ \ (ConfState fs ls) -> ConfState fs (lib : ls)
In an equation for ‘addLib’:
addLib lib
= modify $ \ (ConfState fs ls) -> ConfState fs (lib : ls)

/tmp/GLFW-0.5.2.2-20349/GLFW-0.5.2.2/dist/setup/setup.hs:242:10:
Could not deduce (Applicative (StateT s m))
arising from the superclasses of an instance declaration
from the context (Monad m)
bound by the instance declaration
at /tmp/GLFW-0.5.2.2-20349/GLFW-0.5.2.2/dist/setup/setup.hs:242:10-40
In the instance declaration for ‘Monad (StateT s m)’

/tmp/GLFW-0.5.2.2-20349/GLFW-0.5.2.2/dist/setup/setup.hs:252:10:
Could not deduce (Applicative (StateT s m))
arising from the superclasses of an instance declaration
from the context (Monad m)
bound by the instance declaration
at /tmp/GLFW-0.5.2.2-20349/GLFW-0.5.2.2/dist/setup/setup.hs:252:10-47
In the instance declaration for ‘MonadState s (StateT s m)’
)