[Nix-dev] zlib, iconv, bzip2, et. al.

[Ryan Trinkle]

Have you tried installing those libraries with `nix-env -i`?  You may need
to add some stuff to your environment to make the linker find them, but
that should put them in your ~/.nix-profile/lib.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Thomas Bereknyei <tomberek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ryan,
>
> Thia happens in my normal zsh shell. Cabal will complain about a missing
> library, but I can fix that by going to 'nix-shell -p libiconv'. Stack
> interacting with nix changes things so it sometimes works, I dont have a
> clear example.  Stack setup or even try-reflex has given me this sort of
> issue. I resorted to adding addBuildDepends to a bunch of packages in
> try-reflex's defsault.nix, but somehow i don't think anyone else is doing
> that. My normal shell just never seems to have the libraries in scope and
> no amount of nix-env seems to work. It's as if I'm not getting the -dev
> versions.
>
>  Tom
>
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>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:50:58 -0400
>> From: Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com>
>> To: Thomas Bereknyei <tomberek at gmail.com>
>> Cc: nix-dev <nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl>
>> Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] zlib, iconv, bzip2, et. al.
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>> Can you provide the command line you're using to get into the nix shell?
>> My understanding was that this kind of thing should be handled
>> automatically, but apparently that's not always the case.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Bereknyei <tomberek at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I often have a problem where a library is not available during
>> > compilation, usually Haskell. The standard answer is to start
>> 'nix-shell -p
>> > zlib' and proceed. Is there a way to have them in my standard
>> environment?
>> > This occurs both on OSX and NixOS even when i have those packages
>> installed
>> > (either via nixos-rebuild or nix-env). I am also using zsh.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
>>
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