Haskell Platform Installation Process

Haskell is a pure functional programming language.

Haskell platform is an integrated development environment of Haskell.

This document describes how to install Haskell platform.

Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04.1 lts; Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae

1 download Haskell platform and ghc

Http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html

The preceding webpage contains and installation methods.

2 install ghc-7.4.1

2.1 decompress ghc-7.4.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

2.2 CD ghc-7.4.1

2.3./configure

Error message:

checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryconfigure: error: cannot determine current directory

Solution:

Sudo apt-Get install libgmp3-dev

Sudo apt-Get install libgmp3c2

./Cofigure

No error this time

2.4 sudo make install

2.5 ghc -- version

If this step is given

"The glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation system, version 7.4.1"

It indicates that the installation is correct.

3. Install Haskell-Platform

3.1 unzip haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0.tar.gz

3.2./configure

Error message:

Configure: error: the OpenGL C library is required

Solution:

Sudo apt-Get install libglc-Dev

./Configure

Error message:

Configure: error: the glut C library is required

Solution:

Sudo apt-Get install freeglut3-dev

./Configure

No error message is provided.

3.2 sudo make

3.3 sudo make install

3.4 cabal update

Summary:

1 install Trusted package: libgmp3-dev libgmp3c2 libglc-dev freeglut3-dev

2. Pay attention to the feedback after each command is executed.

References:

1 Haskell introduction and various installation methods: http://blog.csdn.net/albert_lee/article/details/5469933

2 Haskell wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell

3 Haskell Chinese community: http://www.haskellcn.org/