Re: error on building the windows installer

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

+++ Cesar Romani [Jan 02 13 15:41 ]:
> On 29/12/2012 10:34 p.m., John MacFarlane wrote:
> > +++ Cesar Romani [Dec 22 12 10:02 ]:
> >> On 08/11/2012 01:24 p.m., andrea rossato wrote:
> >>> John MacFarlane<fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>   writes:
> >>>
> >>>>> 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!
> >>>
> >>> The problem was just me: I didn't check if the code compiled with the
> >>> "embed_data_files" flag before releasing 0.3.6.
> >>>
> >>> The bug was due to the fact that when moving to hexpat I started using
> >>> lazy bytestrings for reading files, while embed-file uses strict
> >>> bytestrings, hence a type error -- easily fixed.
> >>
> >> After compiling from the newest update from the git repository, 'make'
> >> and 'make install' work fine, but I'm always getting the same error by
> >> building the windows installer make-windows-installer.bat:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> The error occurs by the line:
> >> cabal-dev install --flags="executable -library blaze_html_0_5"
> --datasubdir=
> >
> > Yes, when you tried this I hadn't yet made the change discussed above.
> > I have made it now but have not yet tested the windows installer.
> > You may do so if you wish.
> >
> > Be sure to do a 'git submodule update' after 'git pull'.
> 
> I did it, but on 'make' I get:
> $ make
> cabal-dev configure --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks && cabal-dev build
> Configuring pandoc-1.10...
> setup.exe: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> Diff ==0.2.*
> Resolving dependencies...
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> Then I did 'cabal install Diff' but I get the same result.

Well, the message is telling you that you don't have the Diff 0.2
library, which is a dependency of pandoc.  Try 'make prep' to
install all the dependencies.

('cabal install' won't help anyway, since the Makefile is using
a cabal-dev sandbox.  You could do 'cabal update && cabal-dev install').