Hi, im having problems installing tidal on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. I've tried running the installation script and manual installation, but it keeps getting stuck at "Building network-3.1.2.2 (all, legacy fallback)" while installing the tidal library. I have let it run for hours, is this a known issue?
I just had the same issue on OsX 10.15.17. I tried a bunch of things and in the end it came down to using "compatible" versions of ghc and cabal. The versions that worked for me were:
ghc: 8.10.1
cabal: 3.2.0.0
The osx install script provided by tidal pulls in an install script for haskell. I pulled that manually and added these lines to the top of it
BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_GHC_VERSION=8.10.1
BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_CABAL_VERSION=3.2.0.0
# download haskell install script and then edit it
> curl https://get-ghcup.haskell.org > haskell-install.sh
> cp haskell-install{,-hacked}.sh
> vi haskell-install-hacked.sh
then run
> sh install-haskell-hacked.sh
> cabal update
> cabal install tidal --lib
Along the way playing with things, I found that the same result could be had like this:
> curl https://get-ghcup.haskell.org -sSf | sh
> ghcup install ghc 8.10.1
> ghcup install cabal 3.2.0.0
> ghcup set ghc 8.10.1
> ghcup set cabal 3.2.0.0
> cabal install tidal --lib
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wow dgb thank you so much!! works perfectly. you are truly a lifesaver i was getting soo frustrated <33333 Thank you!
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One note for anybody using ghcup to try out different versions. I had at least one case where I:
- installed test versions of ghc/cabal only for the tidal install to fail
- installed the working versions (as I listed above) and still had failures building tidal because some dependent library was built with different/incompatible versions of some other libraries.
The only way I got past that was to blow away the ghc/cabal install and start over fresh.