Have you tried installing those libraries with `nix-env -i`? You may need to add some stuff to your environment to make the linker find them, but that should put them in your ~/.nix-profile/lib.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Thomas Bereknyei <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan, > > Thia happens in my normal zsh shell. Cabal will complain about a missing > library, but I can fix that by going to 'nix-shell -p libiconv'. Stack > interacting with nix changes things so it sometimes works, I dont have a > clear example. Stack setup or even try-reflex has given me this sort of > issue. I resorted to adding addBuildDepends to a bunch of packages in > try-reflex's defsault.nix, but somehow i don't think anyone else is doing > that. My normal shell just never seems to have the libraries in scope and > no amount of nix-env seems to work. It's as if I'm not getting the -dev > versions. > > Tom > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:50:58 -0400 >> From: Ryan Trinkle <[email protected]> >> To: Thomas Bereknyei <[email protected]> >> Cc: nix-dev <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] zlib, iconv, bzip2, et. al. >> Message-ID: >> <CAHNEpize-D638EyZ4HTjQEy_Nm2BjgVaYT95jSoVua89dr0Wwg@ >> mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Can you provide the command line you're using to get into the nix shell? >> My understanding was that this kind of thing should be handled >> automatically, but apparently that's not always the case. >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Bereknyei <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I often have a problem where a library is not available during >> > compilation, usually Haskell. The standard answer is to start >> 'nix-shell -p >> > zlib' and proceed. Is there a way to have them in my standard >> environment? >> > This occurs both on OSX and NixOS even when i have those packages >> installed >> > (either via nixos-rebuild or nix-env). I am also using zsh. >> > >> > Tom >> > >> > >> >
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