[Haskell-cafe] How to know the build dependencies?

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am learning to use cabal for my code.
>  Just when I start, I met a question, is there an easy way to find
> out what packages my code depends?
>
> Thanks.

Not really. The easiest way is to just build your code and add every
package Cabal complains about being hid into your build-depends.
(Usually this won't take more than a minute or 3 if you're toggling
between a terminal and an editor.)

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gwern
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