[Haskell-cafe] Deploy Haskell application

[Elliot Robinson]

`cabal install --only-dependencies`, possibly with a sandbox set, should
fix that issue. Then configure and move from there.

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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