[Haskell-beginners] Can't build project properly

[Galaxy Being]

Continue disregarding. Figured it out. Missing a language pragma.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 11:45 PM Galaxy Being <borgauf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to do a basic stack project named http-lesson (Chapter 39 from *Get
> Programming with Haskell) *which starts out with this in Main.hs
>
> module Main where
>
> import qualified Data.ByteString as B
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BC
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as LC
> import Network.HTTP.Simple
>
> After doing stack new http-lesson, the books says to modify the
> http-lesson.cabal file in the project, adding bytestring and http-conduit for
> the imports noted above
>
> executable http-lesson-exe
>   main-is: Main.hs
>   other-modules:
>       Paths_http_lesson
>   hs-source-dirs:
>       app
>   ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
>   build-depends:
>       base >=4.7 && <5
>     , http-lesson
>     ,  bytestring
>     , http-conduit
>   default-language: Haskell2010
>
> Being a beginner, I follow the cookbook-like directions, i.e., I next run stack
> build . . . and it errors out, not finding the imported stuff. But then
> when I check the http-lesson.cabal file, the extra packages I added
> have been removed. Hunting around, I find this
> <https://schooloffp.co/2020/12/05/whirlwind-tour-of-stack-for-beginners.html>
> that tells me to put the extra packages in package.yaml. Very confused at
> this point.
>
> ⨽
> Lawrence Bottorff
> Grand Marais, MN, USA
> borgauf at gmail.com
>


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⨽
Lawrence Bottorff
Grand Marais, MN, USA
borgauf at gmail.com
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