Haskell-ide-engine: macOS 10.15.1: Failed to build hie (error while building package shake-0.18.3)

[awave1]

Hi,

I'm trying to build haskell-ide-engine from source on macOS 10.15.1, but the build keeps failing.
Here's the output:

$ stack ./install.hs hie-8.6.5

--  While building package shake-0.18.3 using:
      /Users/awave/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-osx/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.4.0.1_ghc-8.6.5 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-2.4.0.1 build --ghc-options " -fdiagnostics-color=always"
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Progress 1/2

Now, I tried running /Users/awave/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-osx/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.4.0.1_ghc-8.6.5 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-2.4.0.1 build --ghc-options " -fdiagnostics-color=always" directly and it gives me the following:

Run the 'configure' command first.

I'm not entirely sure what I need to 'configure'. I've tried reinstalling stack as well, but that did not solve the issue.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

[jneira]

Hi! well it works in most cases, not sure what would be the cause but we can try to:

• delete .stack-work dir inside the ./install directory: stack clean --full --stack-yaml install\shake.yaml
• run the configure phase (i.e. prepare for building) with stack build --only-configure --stack-yaml install\shake.yaml before trying to run the install.hs script again

[awave1]

@jneira, hmm I tried running the config phase (after I cleaned .stack-work, as suggested), but that didn't finish successfully either:

shake      > [71 of 71] Compiling Run
...
shake      > ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
shake      > clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
shake      > `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)

--  While building package shake-0.18.3 using:
      ~/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-osx/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.4.0.1_ghc-8.6.5 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-2.4.0.1 build --ghc-options " -fdiagnostics-color=always"
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Progress 1/2

Full output: https://gist.github.com/awave1/cc63e5e8815bbe796fa256533e6fa5b6

I assume something might be wrong with gcc on my machine?

[jneira]

mmm, doesn't it list the concrete symbols not found? There are several issues about link errors involving haskell and macos.
btw, a simple stack build in hie project root works?
or a simpler one with stack new myproject && cd myproject && stack build?

[awave1]

I tried doing those simple steps, it still didn't work. So the problem wasn't with hie, fortunately.

I had gnu-binutils installed on my machine and I found that someone had similar issue: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/4830#issuecomment-492812769.

After uninstalling those, I got hie to build successfully 😅 (and stack works normally too)
Closing this issue, and thanks for the help 🙂