I believe you will need to use ghc 7, not ghc 8. (elm-compiler's CI uses ghc-7.10.1, but ghc-7.10.3 should probably work fine as well.)
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Kofi Gumbs <[email protected]> wrote: > I came across this thread > <https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/63> which was very > insightful. I was building on a Mac, but everything is fine after spinning > up a vagrant box and following this blog post > <https://alphydan.svbtle.com/elm-lang-on-ubuntu-14-04>. Hope this helps > some potential contributor in the future! > > > On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 4:46:38 PM UTC-6, Kofi Gumbs wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I've tried to build the elm tools locally in a couple of ways, but I am >> having trouble resolving the dependency graph. I am really only interested >> in elm-make, but I've tried the recommended BuildFromSource.hs script >> <https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/blob/master/installers/BuildFromSource.hs> >> as >> well. Here are the results from both approaches (cabal-install version >> 1.24.0.0, GHC version 8.0.1): >> >> *1) Just elm-make – OUTPUT >> <https://gist.github.com/hkgumbs/9c5bd3efc8cec8d51a643864621ee25a>* >> # ~/Workspaces/elm-make (git)-[0.17.1]- >> >> $ cabal sandbox delete >> $ cabal sandbox init >> $ cabal sandbox add-source ../elm-compiler # both of these are also on >> 0.17.1 >> $ cabal sandbox add-source ../elm-package >> $ cabal install -j --only-dependencies --ghc-options="-w" # these flags >> are from the BuildFromSource.hs script (I've also tried without them) >> >> >> *2) BuildFromSource.hs – OUTPUT >> <https://gist.github.com/hkgumbs/fe48186e72f1c1357441f1185543662b>* >> >> # ~/Workspaces >> >> $ rm -rf Elm-Platform BuildFromSource.hs >> $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/mast >> er/installers/BuildFromSource.hs >> $ runhaskell BuildFromSource.hs 0.17.1 >> >> >> >> I am not very familiar with cabal dependency management but I suspect I >> am missing some --constraint. Has anyone seen / resolved this problem >> before? I haven't had success googling this particular issue, but I have a >> nagging feeling that it's documented somewhere. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
