Hi, thanks for the insight you provided. After hitting a roadblock, I was confused whether the straightforward approach should work. I tried it again today.
Inside an Ubuntu 14.04 VM with sufficient RAM, I cloned the latest tag from the gitit git repository and built with `stack install`. Ended with: ``` Copying from /home/vagrant/gitit/.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-4.0/7.10.3/bin/gitit to /home/vagrant/.local/bin/gitit Copied executables to /home/vagrant/.local/bin: - expireGititCache - gitit ``` I then rsynced the gitit executable to another Ubuntu 14.04 VM with less RAM. Inside that VM I try to run the binary and I receive: ``` vagrant@trusty:~$ ./gitit gitit: /home/vagrant/gitit/.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-4.0/7.10.3/share/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3/gitit-0.12.1.1/data/default.conf: openFile: inappropriate type (Not a directory) ``` So I am missing some config file that was created during the gitit compilation? Is this a gitit specific issue? Kind regards, Matthias Kauer On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 9:24:22 PM UTC+2, Matthias Hörmann wrote: > > Hello > > If you are using the same OS on both your compile and production > system and do have all the non-Haskell libraries you are linking > installed on both > you should be able to just copy the binary without any special options > during stack build. > > I have done it for dozens of different projects. > > Usually you need libgmp3c2, libpcre3 and zlib1g on Debian-based > systems and possibly a database C library if the Haskell library for > that you are using is > just a wrapper around the C version. > > What kind of errors about missing files do you get? > > Matthias Hörmann > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Matthias Kauer <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to deploy a Haskell web application (gitit) on a small VPS and > I'm > > not sure if the task is hard or I am going about it the wrong way. > > The constraints are: > > - The server has 512 MB RAM, so compiling there doesn't work. > > - Docker will most likely not work either. I believe it requires extra > > config in OpenVZ and most hosters will not have done that. > > - Locally, I have a VM (Virtualbox) with 4GB RAM and the same (similar) > > Ubuntu 14.04. environment. > > > > After compiling with `stack install` and uploading, I cannot execute the > > binary because it complains about files missing that have the absolute > path > > from the VM. > > > > Is this actually a very difficult task? Or is it rather so mundane that > > people do not talk about it that much? > > Can you offer some guidance on what I can do to achieve this? > > > > Among other things, I have tried what is described here: > > https://ro-che.info/articles/2015-10-26-static-linking-ghc (building > with > > > > stack build --ghc-options='-optl-static -optl-pthread' --force-dirty) > > This ends up not linking gitit itself at the very end > > > > ```/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbeginT.o: > relocation > > R_X86_64_32 against `__TMC_END__' can not be used when making a shared > > object; recompile with -fPIC``` > > This might be fixable by installing the right system libraries, but is > this > > even a good way to go about this? > > > > Best regards, > > Matthias > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "haskell-stack" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/8cdd70b2-136c-4fe3-8a87-e9184d7f8589%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "haskell-stack" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/837a7dc0-62b4-4761-87ef-c832658f33cf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
