HaskellQuest

A game for teaching functional programming in Haskell

Installation

Windows

1. Install the Haskell Tool Stack

   Please visit the stack website and install stack according to the instructions on the webpage.

2. Install GHC and other libraries

   • Run the following command.

     stack --version
     

     If no error occurs and the version of stack is correctly shown, the installation of stack was successful. If not, please try installing it again.

   • Run the following commands sequentially to install GHC, QuickCheck and th-alpha.

     stack --resolver lts-9.17 setup
     stack update
     ghc-pkg recache
     stack install QuickCheck
     stack install th-alpha
     

     Some commands may take longer to complete, depending on the Internet condition and computer performance. The command screen may be flushed with massive progress information. If a command ends with a Permission Denied error, run it again. This step may take 20 ~ 30 minutes in total.

3. Start HaskellQuest

   Please download HaskellQuest-0.1.0-alpha.1-Windows.zip.

   Unzip the downloaded file and you will get a folder named HaskellQuest.

   Entering the HaskellQuest folder and double-clicking startHaskellQuest.bat will start the game. If the game does not start in 30 seconds, enter the win-unpacked folder and find a file named HaskellQuest.exe, double-clicking this file will start the game.

   For non-roman alphabets users, please switch to the English input method while playing HaskellQuest.

macOS

Coming soon

Screenshots

FAQ

1. command not found or not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file when run ghc-pkg recache.

   Solution: Skip this command.

2. The system already has another version of GHC installed, and the stack install command complains about the versions of dependencies.

   Solution: Try again with the following commands.

   stack config set resolver lts-9.17
   stack setup
   stack update
   stack install QuickCheck
   stack install th-alpha