[Haskell-beginners] cabal install zlib failing

[John Ky]

Hi Haskellers,

I found that this works for me:

nix-shell -p zlib --run 'cabal install zlib'

Cheers,

-John
​

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 at 23:55 John Ky <newhoggy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Haskellers,
>
> Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
>
> cabal install zlib
> Resolving dependencies...
> Notice: installing into a sandbox located at
> /home/ubuntu/hw-files/.cabal-sandbox/7.10.3
> Downloading zlib-0.6.1.1...
> Configuring zlib-0.6.1.1...
> Failed to install zlib-0.6.1.1
> Build log ( /home/ubuntu/hw-files/.cabal-sandbox/7.10.3/logs/zlib-0.6.1.1.log ):
> Configuring zlib-0.6.1.1...
> setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.5.0-x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3: Missing dependency on a
> foreign library:
> * Missing (or bad) header file: zlib.h
> * Missing C library: z
> 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.
> If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
> compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
> with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> zlib-0.6.1.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
> This is what I have in my environment:
>
> ubuntu at box1179:~/hw-files$ dpkg -l | grep zlib
> ii  zlib1g                                                      1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu4                             compression library - runtime
> ii  zlib1g:i386                                                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu4                             compression library - runtime
> iU  zlib1g-dev                                                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1                               compression library - development
>
> And this:
>
> ubuntu at box1179:~/hw-files$ nix-env -q
> cabal-install-1.22.9.0
> ghc-7.10.3
> nix-1.11.2
> zlib-1.2.8
>
> Cheers,
>
> -John
> ​
>
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