Newbie here: need help with error booting Tidal

Installation help
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running on Win 11
installed everything through the auto-installer but I keep getting this message when trying to boot Tidal in Atom

t>
C:\Users\zi.atom\packages\tidalcycles\lib\BootTidal.hs:42:41: error:
Not in scope: Sound.Tidal.Transition.mortalOverlay' NB: no module named Sound.Tidal.Transition' is imported.
|
42 | forId i t = transition tidal False (Sound.Tidal.Transition.mortalOverlay t) i
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Does anyone know how I can fix it?

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Hi, the choco installer is currently installing a new version of ghc that has problems. You could try fixing it with these four commands:

choco uninstall tidalcycles
choco uninstall ghc
choco install ghc --version 8.10.7 
cabal v1-install tidal

Please let us know how you get on.

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Hey, thanks for replying!
I followed through but now I'm getting a different error message:

t>
: error:
Could not find module `Sound.Tidal.Context'
It is not a module in the current program, or in any known package.

Also tried the steps in troubleshooting instructions and still not working?

Any help appreciated!

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Hmm, could you try rebooting and then trying this part once more:

cabal v1-install tidal

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I'm getting this from the terminal:

Resolving dependencies...
Up to date

@ WARNING: Installation might not be completed as desired!
The command "cabal install [TARGETS]" doesn't expose libraries.
* You might have wanted to add them as dependencies to your package. In this
case add "tidal" to the build-depends field(s) of your package's .cabal file.
* You might have wanted to add them to a GHC environment. In this case use
"cabal install --lib tidal". The "--lib" flag is provisional: see
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6481 for more information.

Any idea what this could mean?

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That probably means you did cabal install tidal instead of cabal v1-install tidal.

Without the v1- it needs an extra --lib, to make the full command cabal install tidal --lib. But the v1-install version is more reliable..

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Try this, it worked for me and some other people:
Uninstall ghc and tidal, completely delete the c:\tools and c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\cabal folders and reinstall by hand:

choco install ghc --version 8.10.7
choco install mingw
choco install msys2

Add c:\tools\msys64\usr\bin to the system path and reboot.
Finally:

cabal install tidal-1.8.1 --lib
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When I install tidal it says this following the step above:

PS C:\Users\admin> cabal install tidal-1.8.1 --lib
Resolving dependencies...
Build profile: -w ghc-8.10.7 -O1
In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details):
 - network-3.1.2.7 (lib:network) (requires build)
 - hosc-0.19.1 (lib) (requires build)
 - tidal-1.8.1 (lib) (requires build)
Starting     network-3.1.2.7 (all, legacy fallback)

Failed to build network-3.1.2.7. The failure occurred during the configure
step.
Build log (
C:\cabal\logs\ghc-8.10.7\network-3.1.2.7-f85fba9511651aeda5138bcfccd7301dbbdd5ed6.log
):
Configuring network-3.1.2.7...
Error: cabal.exe: The package has a './configure' script. If you are on
Windows, This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or
Cygwin. If you are not on Windows, ensure that an 'sh' command is discoverable
in your path.

Error: cabal.exe: Failed to build network-3.1.2.7 (which is required by
tidal-1.8.1). See the build log above for details.
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This happens if cabal can't find the executables in c:\tools\msys64\usr\bin. Make sure the former installations went without problems, and that you have correctly added this path to the system path.

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Thanks everybody for being so helpful!
I tried uninstalling ghc and tidal and reinstalling and it's working fine!

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Could you explain how to uninstall ghc and tidal? Do I do it through Powershell? With Choco or Cabal? I tried typing "choco uninstall ghc" into Powershell and got the error message:

ghc not uninstalled. An error occurred during uninstall:
 Unable to uninstall 'ghc 8.10.7' because 'haskell-dev 0.0.1' depends on it.
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Nevermind! @joanq, after going through those instructions and using --force to force reinstalls of ghc and msys2, it worked! Thanks for your help! I hope that someday the install process for Tidalcycles is more accessible!

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I'm glad you solved it! Have fun with Tidalcycles!