[jhc] Parsec -- Module not found

[David Virebayre]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> are you passing '-p parsec' on the command line? it is the equivalent of
> ghc's -package flag more or less.

My bad, I didn't know I had to do that.

I apologise for wasting your time, as indeed the User manual makes it clear.
I could have saved myself quite some time, had I read it.

So it compiles and works with the command line.

> This is actually the 3rd or 4th time someone has had this issue, clearly
> I need to improve the documentation or something. What I was

I don't think you have. It's my fault entirely.
Being used to ghc, I didn't expect to have to specify anything on the
command line. Other imports worked fine too : Data.List, Data.Maybe,
Control.Monad, etc.


> thinking of was to have it look for unrecognized modules in available
> packages and provide a better error message, something like:

That'd be cool, but I'm sure there's many things higher on the
priority list. Fools like me just have to read the (adequate) existing
documentation.

> I don't want to do the stateful thing ghc does with package registration
> and exposed/hidden packages and whatnot, it always felt fairly hacky. In
> jhc you get what you specify on the command line and thats it. (though,
> you can always create custom profiles in your targets.ini file)

But the drawback is every time you add an import from a new library,
you have to also change your compile script.
Not a big deal though.

David.

P.S. The cool thing is that the stripped executable is 79588 bytes
with jhc vs 608036 with ghc !