[Haskell-cafe] Deploy Haskell application

[Corentin Dupont]

Hi,
it seems that 'cabal configure' fails if some dependencies are missing.
Then cabal copy complains that I should run 'cabal configure' first...


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Tom Feron <tho.feron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Corentin,
>
> I think you're searching for `cabal configure && cabal copy`. It will
> still have an exit code of 1 if you don't compile anything but it will copy
> the files from data-files (and alike).
>
> On my machine, it copies share/index.html into
> .cabal-sandbox/share/x86_64-openbsd-ghc-7.6.3/dummy-0.1.0.0/share/index.html.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 11 June 2014 16:00, Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the .cabal file you can put a directive "data-files" and they will be
>> deployed in ~/.cabal/share...
>> I want to trigger only this.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Tom Nielsen <tanielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure what you mean - cabal doesn't do any deployment, or at least I
>>> have not found a useful way of making it do so. In our case the deployment
>>> is done by running apt-get update && apt-get install on the server.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Corentin Dupont <
>>> corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your response!
>>>> Is there a way to ask Cabal to just deploy the resources and not
>>>> compile everything?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Tom Nielsen <tanielsen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We package up the executables and other files into a Debain .deb
>>>>> package using fpm after running cabal. Here is an example Makefile which
>>>>> runs cabal, creates the debian package and adds it to our apt server:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/openbrainsrc/debcd/blob/master/Makefile
>>>>>
>>>>> This is run by our CI server after every commit to GitHub.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Vo Minh Thu <noteed at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These days, an increasingly popular solution to package an application
>>>>>> with its dependencies is to use Docker. You can build the Docker image
>>>>>> locally and push it to a Docker registry and retrieve it on your
>>>>>> remote machine, or you can dump it as a tarball and load it on your
>>>>>> remote machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You have different ways to create the Docker image, one of which would
>>>>>> be similar to pushing your Haskell binary to your remote machine. That
>>>>>> way is simply to compile your exectuable locally, and copy it to the
>>>>>> remote machine with is assets if any (you might even move it to a
>>>>>> .cabal directory as if it was installed through `cabal install`). By
>>>>>> default your executable will be statically linked, except for libgmp
>>>>>> that you have to install on the remote machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recommand you look into Docker. You will be able to e-use its
>>>>>> knowledge to package increasingly complex applications (that might
>>>>>> have more numerous dependencies that you wouldn't have to manage on
>>>>>> the host).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>> Thu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2014-06-11 12:24 GMT+02:00 Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com
>>>>>> >:
>>>>>> > Hi guys!
>>>>>> > Is there a procedure to deploy a Haskell application?
>>>>>> > I have an Amazon EC2 micro instance to run my application, but it's
>>>>>> way too
>>>>>> > small to compile it using cabal (compilation takes half a day
>>>>>> rouhgly), so I
>>>>>> > compile it on my computer.
>>>>>> > Is there a convenient way to bundle the executable with the
>>>>>> resources and
>>>>>> > ship it to the server?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks!
>>>>>> > Corentin
>>>>>> >
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