Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:23:21PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 11/12/12 17:43, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, Ok, there were only minor differences between the repo and the version on hackage so I imported the changes into the repo, which should now be the same as version 1.3.7 on hackage. Please feel free to submit merge requestsall the folks I know who worked on this originally are busy with other stuff, so we really need someone who's using the library to help. I reported this a while ago, and Iustin gave an awesome explanation of the problem: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Network-Curl-cookie-jar-madness-td5716344.html I've since switched to http-conduit for that project but it would be nice to have curl working anyway because it requires less thinking. If someone's going to maintain it, then consider this a bug report! I will file that as a bug report, thanks for the reminder! iustin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:43:32PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, Ok, there were only minor differences between the repo and the version on hackage so I imported the changes into the repo, which should now be the same as version 1.3.7 on hackage. Please feel free to submit merge requestsall the folks I know who worked on this originally are busy with other stuff, so we really need someone who's using the library to help. Hi, So I started by filling a couple of bug reports (yay for a bugtracker, finally). However, it seems that I can't set labels on the issues (bugs vs. enhancements), probably github rights. Will try to send merge requests as well, time/skills permitting. thanks, iustin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Hi, the curl binding certainly needs some love---if anyone has the time to fix it up and maintain it, help would be most appreciated. There is a repo for it over here: https://github.com/GaloisInc/curl which is the most up-to date version I know of, but since the last commit there seems to be from 4 years ago, I'm not going to bet that there aren't any additional fixes floating around. (cc-ing Don, who is listed as the maintainer, but I'm not sure if he has time to deal with curl right now) -Iavor On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.comwrote: Kevin Cantu wrote: With the curl package on Hackage, I merely need an SSL enabled version of libcurl, and every Linux distro I've tried this on has several variations of such a package. (You have a choice of OpenSSL or GNUTLS, for example.) I tried the CURL bindings on Linux some time ago and I personally found the thing pretty much un-usable. The API was incomplete, inconsistent and way too close to the C API. However, I have had much better luck with Michael Snoyman's http-conduit package, which being pure Haskell (ie no C) should be much easier to install on windows. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:48:23PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, the curl binding certainly needs some love---if anyone has the time to fix it up and maintain it, help would be most appreciated. There is a repo for it over here: https://github.com/GaloisInc/curl which is the most up-to date version I know of, but since the last commit there seems to be from 4 years ago, I'm not going to bet that there aren't any additional fixes floating around. (cc-ing Don, who is listed as the maintainer, but I'm not sure if he has time to deal with curl right now) I've tried to contact Don multiple times over the past month with offers of whatever help I can give, but I heard nothing back. I didn't know about the github repo (it's not listed on the hackage page), so thanks a lot for that info, I'll try to send some merge requests and file bugs (there is a least one critical bug w.r.t. SSL usage on Linux and another small-impact bug with cookie jars usage). iustin, who uses curl and _really_ wants to see it improved ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:57:25PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:48:23PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, the curl binding certainly needs some love---if anyone has the time to fix it up and maintain it, help would be most appreciated. There is a repo for it over here: https://github.com/GaloisInc/curl which is the most up-to date version I know of, but since the last commit there seems to be from 4 years ago, I'm not going to bet that there aren't any additional fixes floating around. (cc-ing Don, who is listed as the maintainer, but I'm not sure if he has time to deal with curl right now) I've tried to contact Don multiple times over the past month with offers of whatever help I can give, but I heard nothing back. I didn't know about the github repo (it's not listed on the hackage page), so thanks a lot for that info, I'll try to send some merge requests and file bugs (there is a least one critical bug w.r.t. SSL usage on Linux and another small-impact bug with cookie jars usage). Hmm, checking again, the github repo is at version 1.3.5 (April 2009), whereas hackage is at version 1.3.7 (uploaded in May 2011). Still hunting for a correct upstream project page or tracker… regards, iustin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Hi, Ok, there were only minor differences between the repo and the version on hackage so I imported the changes into the repo, which should now be the same as version 1.3.7 on hackage. Please feel free to submit merge requestsall the folks I know who worked on this originally are busy with other stuff, so we really need someone who's using the library to help. Thanks! -Iavor On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:57:25PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:48:23PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, the curl binding certainly needs some love---if anyone has the time to fix it up and maintain it, help would be most appreciated. There is a repo for it over here: https://github.com/GaloisInc/curl which is the most up-to date version I know of, but since the last commit there seems to be from 4 years ago, I'm not going to bet that there aren't any additional fixes floating around. (cc-ing Don, who is listed as the maintainer, but I'm not sure if he has time to deal with curl right now) I've tried to contact Don multiple times over the past month with offers of whatever help I can give, but I heard nothing back. I didn't know about the github repo (it's not listed on the hackage page), so thanks a lot for that info, I'll try to send some merge requests and file bugs (there is a least one critical bug w.r.t. SSL usage on Linux and another small-impact bug with cookie jars usage). Hmm, checking again, the github repo is at version 1.3.5 (April 2009), whereas hackage is at version 1.3.7 (uploaded in May 2011). Still hunting for a correct upstream project page or tracker… regards, iustin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
On 11/12/12 17:43, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hi, Ok, there were only minor differences between the repo and the version on hackage so I imported the changes into the repo, which should now be the same as version 1.3.7 on hackage. Please feel free to submit merge requestsall the folks I know who worked on this originally are busy with other stuff, so we really need someone who's using the library to help. I reported this a while ago, and Iustin gave an awesome explanation of the problem: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Network-Curl-cookie-jar-madness-td5716344.html I've since switched to http-conduit for that project but it would be nice to have curl working anyway because it requires less thinking. If someone's going to maintain it, then consider this a bug report! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Heh, I was trying to build this yesterday and it was making by eyes bleed. With the curl package on Hackage, I merely need an SSL enabled version of libcurl, and every Linux distro I've tried this on has several variations of such a package. (You have a choice of OpenSSL or GNUTLS, for example.) Apparently neither OpenSSL nor cURL wants to provide such a Windows binary package, though, so I attempted to build a version of libcurl with SSL support... Sigbjorn's instructions are definitely out of date. (I couldn't use his ZIP package, either.) Using MSYS, though, I was able to compile a version of libcurl with winssl, but then every variation of cabal install command wasn't cooperating. What should I be using instead of the following, neither of which seems to tell cabal where to find libcurl? ``` $ CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/code/curl_install/include cabal install curl --ld-options=-Lc:/code/curl_install/lib $ cabal install curl --extra-lib-dirs=c:/code/curl_install/lib --extra-include-dirs=c:/code/curl_install/include ``` Detail, showing some verbose error messages: https://gist.github.com/4056331 Kevin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Kevin Cantu wrote: With the curl package on Hackage, I merely need an SSL enabled version of libcurl, and every Linux distro I've tried this on has several variations of such a package. (You have a choice of OpenSSL or GNUTLS, for example.) I tried the CURL bindings on Linux some time ago and I personally found the thing pretty much un-usable. The API was incomplete, inconsistent and way too close to the C API. However, I have had much better luck with Michael Snoyman's http-conduit package, which being pure Haskell (ie no C) should be much easier to install on windows. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Yes, that's a very good point. Did you know that Strawberry Perl includes a cygwin gcc? http://strawberryperl.com Maybe Haskell Platform could do the same. On Nov 10, 2012 5:28 PM, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: The only short cut would be to have it in the Platform - otherwise it is DIY I'm afraid. This is as much Microsoft's fault as Haskell's for not providing a C compiler, build tools etc. in the baseline environment. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
When I do cabal install curl in Windows, a missing cygwin dll message pops up, and packages that depend on curl, like shpider, fail to install. Specs: * cabal-install 0.14.0 * Cabal 1.14.0 * GHC 7.4.2 * Haskell Platform 2012 * Windows 7 Proffesional x64 -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
Isn't Curl a C library (with a Haskell binding)? For Haskell bindings the best environment on Windows is usually MinGW / MSys, but your error suggests you should be building from Cygwin in this case. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] curl package broken in Windows
I've just checked Hackage - the Curl package (haskell) is a binding to libcurl (c library). It looks like MinGW / MSys is the best option - there are some notes are written by Sigbjorn Finne (who wrote the Haskell binding) although they are now quite old: http://haskell.forkio.com/Home/curl-win32 It looks like Sigbjorn, was cross compiling a MinGW build for libcurl from Cygwin, instead I'd build under a proper installation of MinGW / MSys. The bits of MinGW that are distributed with GHC aren't sufficient for this - you will need a proper installing of MinGW / MSys. On 9 November 2012 20:13, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't Curl a C library (with a Haskell binding)? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
