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

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/6/14 Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>:
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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.
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> 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.)
>
> - --
> gwern

Someone really ought to write a tool for this...

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Deniz Dogan