How do i use runhaskell with cabal-dev?

Question

Unfortunately cabal-dev ghci does not work in this project, i get an error:

Loading package download-0.3.2 ... linking ... 
ghc: /home/stulli/haskell/ifdl/cabal-         


        

Answer 1

The cabal-dev setup doesn't work very well for ghci, so it might very well be that it also doesn't work well for runhaskell. Maybe virthualenv will work better for this use case?

Answer 2

To use runhaskell with cabal sandboxes (cabal >= 1.18), run the command

runhaskell -package-db=.cabal-sandbox/i386-windows-ghc-7.6.3-packages.conf.d <file.hs>

substituting the proper *-packages.conf.d directory for your GHC version.

Answer 3

You can try something like the next:

runhaskell -package-conf=cabal-dev/packages-7.0.3.conf main.hs

But I think if cabal-dev ghci doesn't work, then runhaskell will not work too. You need to find out what is wrong with download package.