Re: error on building the windows installer

[andrea rossato <andrea.rossato-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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.

Andrea