I have working Eclipse (Kepler Service Release 2) + EclipseFP (2.6.0) + Haskell Platform under Windows 8.1 x64. In one moment after some cabal install, EclipseFP stopped working and showing me:
The program ghc version >=6.4 is required but it could not be found.
I have:
- Uninstalled Haskell Platform
- Deleted C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\cabal*
- Deleted C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell*
- Install Haskell Platform 2013.2
- Run Eclipse with my Haskell workspace
- Try to build my project
- It gave me this error about ghc and cannot build it.
EclipseFP configuration found all Haskell Helper executables. It found Cabal 1.16.0.2 and GHC 7.6.3 already. From command-line GHC and cabal are found and are working. "cabal build" is working on the project from command-line, too.
This message doesn't say almost anything! If I could see the path it is searching for GHC or where it get this path from...
EDIT: Message from buildwrapper:
"C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\buildwrapper.exe synchronize --force=false --tempfolder=.dist-buildwrapper --cabalpath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe --cabalfile=D:\Project\haskell2\SomeGL\SomeGL.cabal --cabalflags= --logcabal=true
configuring because setup_config not present
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe" "configure" "--verbose=1" "--user" "--enable-tests" "--enable-benchmarks" "--builddir=D:\Project\haskell2\SomeGL.dist-buildwrapper\dist" cabal.exe: The program ghc version >=6.4 is required but it could not be found."
Calling exactly the last line from cmd.exe (as normal non-admin user) everything is working fine:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe" "configure" "--verbose=1" "--user" "--enable-tests" "--enable-benchmarks" "--builddir=D:\Project\haskell2\SomeGL\.dist-buildwrapper\dist"
EDIT: To find the potential path environement that is used I tried to run GHCi console inside Eclipse and tried:
import System.Environment
x <- getEnvironment
filter (\ (a,_) -> a == "Path") x
and got something that is starting with:
[("Path","C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\bin;...")]
First folder is invalid, but Haskell Platform is valid and working. Another thing I found. One of times I have run "Build All" command there was run Process in Eclipse with GHC and the path was:
Running executable C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\bin\ghc.exe
I went to see this process details and it is run from the same user that is currently Eclipse run with. And the path is correct, but I still got the error:
The program ghc version >=6.4 is required but it could not be found.
Running from command-line still it is working. The program has errors, but only in command-line I see them.
Could someone help with finding this problem?
EDIT: I found some interesting issue. Running "Build All" command is executing this command:
C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\buildwrapper.exe synchronize --force=false --tempfolder=.dist-buildwrapper --cabalpath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe --cabalfile=D:\haskell\SomeGL\SomeGL.cabal --cabalflags= --logcabal=true
Which run from command-line gives an error. The problem is that there are no quotes around cabalpath, because it has spaces in it. When I run it that way from command-line it works:
C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\buildwrapper.exe synchronize --force=false --tempfolder=.dist-buildwrapper --cabalpath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin\cabal.exe" --cabalfile=D:\haskell\SomeGL\SomeGL.cabal --cabalflags= --logcabal=true
I think that all "--cabalfile" parameters should have quotes, because paths could have spaces in them. I still don't know if this is the problem under Eclipse.
