Re: error on building the windows installer

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

+++ andrea rossato [Nov 08 12 12:39 ]:
> John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > +++ Cesar Romani [Nov 07 12 14:40 ]:
> >  
> >> If I follow these steps on the batch file:
> >> 1. cabal-dev install --disable-library-for-ghci highlighting-kate
> >> 2. cabal-dev add-source pandoc-types
> >> 3. cabal-dev install --reinstall --force-reinstalls pandoc-types
> >> 4. cabal-dev install --flags="embed_data_files" citeproc-hs
> >> 5. cabal-dev install --flags="executable -library blaze_html_0_5"
> >> --datasubdir=
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> I always get the same error on the 5. line:
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> Linking dist\build\pandoc\pandoc.exe ...
> >> Preprocessing executable 'make-pandoc-man-pages' for pandoc-1.10...
> >> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id pandoc-1.10-inplace
> >>     (use -v for more information)
> >> cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
> >> pandoc-1.10 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> >> ExitFailure 1
> >
> > Ah.  I see what is going on.
> >
> > To build make-pandoc-man-pages, we need the library installed.
> > But we disabled that with the '-library' flag, in order to make
> > the executable relocatable.
> >
> > Well, the man pages aren't really needed for Windows anyway,
> > so maybe I'll add a cabal flag that turns off 'make-pandoc-man-pages';
> > I can then use this in the windows package creation script.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> In citeproc-hs there also seems to be a bug which shows up when building
> with the "embed_data_files" flags. I'm going to fix it later this
> afternoon.

My present thought is that pandoc's 'library' and 'executable' flags
create too many problems.  I'm thinking of getting rid of them, and
adding an embed_data_files flag to embed the data files into the binary.
(The added size is fairly insignificant since the binary is already so
large.)  This would allow you to make a relocatable executable, not just
on Windows but on any system.  And it would be fully relocatable --
copy the binary anywhere and it will work, without the need of
supporting data files.

This would also solve the problem with man pages noted above, as
we would no longer need the -library flag.

Anyway, I was going to use citeproc-hs as a model, so let me know what
the problem was!

John