[Haskell-cafe] Is anybody on 9.6.1 having problems profiling on a Mac?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon May 15 11:52:39 UTC 2023


If you installed ghc via ghcup, you shouldn't need it. If you
installed via Homebrew, I don't know if they have a separate package
for the dynamic libs or what it would be called; I use Linux and
ghcup, and if I'd used the Ubuntu packages it would be "ghc-prof".

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 7:49 AM George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Brandon, I'm on a Mac. Do you know how I should install it?
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:38 AM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> `ghc-dynamic` would be an OS package, not cabal.
>>
>> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 7:36 AM George Colpitts
>> <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks Henning. I just installed ghc 9.6.1.
>> >
>> > When I try ghc-dynamic I get
>> >
>> >  $ cabal install --lib ghc-dynamic
>> > Error: cabal: Unknown package "ghc-dynamic".
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 4:47 PM Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 14 May 2023, George Colpitts wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > gets the error:
>> >> >
>> >> >       Could not find module ‘Prelude’
>> >> >
>> >> >        Perhaps you haven't installed the "p_dyn" libraries for package ‘base-4.18.0.0’?
>> >>
>> >> On Debian Linux the probable cause would be that you have not installed
>> >> ghc-dynamic. Is there a package missing on your Mac installation?
>> >
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