[Haskell-cafe] HsOpenSSL doesn't build

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 25 February 2018 at 19:49, fr33domlover <fr33domlover at riseup.net> wrote:
> Oh and I do have `libssl-dev` installed from distro package.

Do you have libcrypto-dev or something similar installed?

>
>
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:47:35 +0200
> fr33domlover <fr33domlover at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Haskellers,
>>
>>
>> For a long time I did my Haskell coding on a laptop running Trisquel 7
>> GNU/Linux, 64-bit. I had stack installed from FPComplete's debian
>> repo, and GHC 7.10.3 installed from hvr's PPA. I was working, among
>> other things, on a program that I built last time with LTS 6.5 and
>> everything was okay.
>>
>> Then I moved to a new laptop, now I run Devuan Jessie (which is
>> basically the same as Debian 8 Jessie), 64-bit, and I have stack
>> installed using the script provided by the stack website, and GHC
>> installed using `stack setup`. I'm trying to build the very same
>> program, and I get this:
>>
>>     Configuring HsOpenSSL-0.11.1.1...
>>     Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.0.1.1_ghc-7.10.3: Missing dependencies on
>>     foreign libraries:
>>     * Missing C libraries: crypto, ssl
>>     This problem can usually be solved by installing the system
>>     packages that provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev"
>>     versions). If the libraries are already installed but in a
>>     non-standard location then you can use the flags
>>     --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they
>>     are.
>>
>> I thought maybe my OpenSSL version is too old. That's a bit weird
>> because it seems to be more recent than the Trisquel one (well,
>> basically same version, just some micro version being a bit higher),
>> but still, I decided to try a few things:
>>
>> - I installed OpenSSL 1.1 using Guix and used the flags mentioned
>> above to point to Guix's include and dir paths
>> - I downloaded OpenSSL 1.1 release tarball, built from source,
>>   installed, pointed stack to that location
>> - In those extra dirs I listed all the system ones like /lib
>>   and /usr/lib just in case
>> - I updated stack to the latest release, and did stack setup
>>   --upgrade-cabal and installed alex and happy because stack
>> complained no package was providing them
>> - I deleted .stack-work and ~/.stack and did a totally clean build
>>
>> But nothing works, I'm still getting this error. On the older laptop
>> everything works.
>>
>> How do I go about solving this? I don't know what else to try or how
>> to make `stack build` look in the paths I provide and see the OpenSSL
>> library there and use it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any clues!!!
>>
>> --
>> fr33
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