[xmonad] Errors building Xmonad using Stack

[Brandon Allbery]

The error message is, weirdly, giving a suggestion only valid in ghci. What
you actually need to do is `cabal install --lib X11`, and similarly for any
other packages it reports.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 11:23 Alain Bertrand <alainbe at free.fr> wrote:

> Tried with Cabal.
>
> alain at keitai-kun:~/.config/xmonad$ ~/.cabal/bin/xmonad --recompile
> XMonad will use ghc to recompile, because neither
> "/home/alain/.config/xmonad/build" nor
> "/home/alain/.config/xmonad/stack.yaml
> " exists.
> XMonad recompiling (forced).
> Errors detected while compiling xmonad config:
> /home/alain/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
> $ ghc --make xmonad.hs -i -ilib -fforce-recomp -main-is main -v0
> -outputdir /home/alain/.cache/xmonad/build-x86_64-linux -o /ho
> me/alain/.cache/xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux
>
> xmonad.hs:5:2: error:
>     Could not load module ‘Graphics.X11.Xlib’
>     It is a member of the hidden package ‘X11-1.10.2’.
>     You can run ‘:set -package X11’ to expose it.
>     (Note: this unloads all the modules in the current scope.)
>     Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.
>   |
> 5 |  import Graphics.X11.Xlib
>   |  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Please check the file for errors.
>
> I am ok with ':set -package X11’ but couldn't find the right syntax.
>
>
> Alain
> On 20/07/2022 15:58, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > Oh my. That suggests the corruption is in your main .stack while
> > trying to register the built packages. But at this point I have to
> > hand you off to someone who knows stack better than I do.
>
>
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