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[xchen87]

Hey,
I'm completely new to clash and haskell, and run into the following issues trying to perform the cabal build cabal v2-run --write-ghc-environment-files=always -- clash. Running "cabal update" doesn't help.

root@30b075070b94:/clash-compiler# cabal v2-run --write-ghc-environment-files=always -- clash
Configuration is affected by the following files:
- cabal.project
Resolving dependencies...
Error: [Cabal-7107]
Could not resolve dependencies:
[__0] trying: clash-benchmark-0.0.0 (user goal)
[__1] trying: base-4.21.0.0/installed-ae91 (dependency of clash-benchmark)
[__2] trying: clash-cores-1.9.0 (user goal)
[__3] next goal: prettyprinter-interp (dependency of clash-cores)
[__3] rejecting: prettyprinter-interp-0.2.0.0 (conflict: base==4.21.0.0/installed-ae91, prettyprinter-interp => base>=4.12 && <4.21)
[__3] skipping: prettyprinter-interp-0.1.0.0 (has the same characteristics that caused the previous version to fail: excludes 'base' version 4.21.0.0)
[__3] fail (backjumping, conflict set: base, clash-cores, prettyprinter-interp)
After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these were the goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: base, clash-cores, prettyprinter-interp, clash-benchmark
Try running with --minimize-conflict-set to improve the error message.

Currently I have ghcup (0.1.50.1) installed, and installed&updated ghc (9.12.2) and cabal (3.14.1.1), stack (3.3.1).
I appreciate any pointers.
Thanks.

[DigitalBrains1]

I think you ended up following the instructions at https://clash-lang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/installing.html but this documentation is woefully outdated. Please have a look at https://clash-lang.org/install/ instead! Feel free to ask for more help if that also does not work out. Note that we have multiple places where you can contact us: https://clash-lang.org/#open-source-community, the section named Open-source community.

[DigitalBrains1]

And welcome, I hope you'll like Clash and Haskell :-)

[xchen87]

Thank you!

Following https://clash-lang.org/install/, and the README within starter project my-clash-project, I was able to use stack to build the project. However when performing the stack test, I got the following error message, do you know what I was missing here:

root@b31f24961aa0:/clash-compiler/my-clash-project# stack test
my-clash-project> test (suite: doctests)

[INFO   ] [ThreadId 4] Examples: 0  Tried: 0  Errors: 0  Unexpected output: 0

my-clash-project> Test suite doctests passed
my-clash-project> test (suite: test-library)
.
  Tests.Example.Project
    accum: OK (0.02s)
        test-library: <stdout>: commitBuffer: invalid argument (cannot encode character '\10003')

my-clash-project> Test suite test-library failed

Error: [S-7282]
       Stack failed to execute the build plan.
       While executing the build plan, Stack encountered the error:
       Error: [S-1995]
       Test suite failure for package my-clash-project-0.1
           test-library:  exited with: ExitFailure 1
       Logs printed to console

[xchen87]

Oh nvm, looks like this is complaining the terminal doesn't have UTF-8 support set. Test can finish after updating the LANG.
With this, the starter project seems up and running now. will close this.

Thank you a lot!