WIP: Agda base library

This is an attempt at creating a base library for Agda. Unlike the agda-stdlib library, which is designed with proving in mind (and requires emacs configured with the Agda input method in order to type all those fancy unicode symbols), this library is meant to be a general purpose "batteries-included" base library that doesn't require emacs to use and is keyboard friendly.

The design is mostly based on GHC's base library, but a lot of ideas were "stolen" from libraries and packages from hackage, pursuit, agda-stdlib, agda-prelude, Idris and other sources.

How to install (Linux, macOS and other Unices)

This assumes that Agda is already installed. See the next sections otherwise:

# Clone the project somewhere (or download the code and unzip it somewhere)
git clone https://github.com/berndlosert/agda-base.git

# Set up the base library
mkdir -p ~/.agda
echo <path to base library>/base-library.agda-lib >> ~/.agda/libraries
echo base-library >> ~/.agda/defaults

# Needed to compile agda programs into executables
cabal update
cabal install --lib ieee754
cabal install --lib network # Needed by Network.Socket code
cabal install --lib async # Needed by Control.Concurrent.Async code

Install Agda via Cabal

cabal install Agda

Install Agda with brew (macOS Mojave)

brew install agda

N.B. brew install agda will install a couple of "unnecessary" things:

• the agda-stdlib (under /usr/local/lib/agda)
• emacs

To uninstall emacs, do the following:

# Uninstall emacs
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies emacs

# Uninstall emacs dependencies (brew really needs an option for this)
brew deps emacs | xargs -n 1 brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies

# Uninstall leftover files
rm -rf /usr/local/etc/unbound
rm -rf /usr/local/etc/gnutls
rm -rf /usr/local/etc/openssl@1.1
rm -rf /usr/local/etc/ca-certificates
rm -rf /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/agda

Hello world!

Save the following code into a file called hello.agda.

{-# OPTIONS --guardedness #-}

open import Prelude
open import System.IO

main : IO Unit
main = print "Hello world!"

Compile it like so:

agda --compile hello.agda

A more complex example

Save the following code into a file called echo-server.agda:

https://github.com/berndlosert/agda-base/blob/fa863817c02e5a1dfe99312b91ea69888dd39f87/examples/echo-server.agda#L1-L30

Compile this code by running agda --compile echo-server.agda. If you get the following errors:

Compilation error:

MAlonzo/Code/Network/Socket.hs:17:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Network.Socket.ByteString’
    Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
17 | import Network.Socket.ByteString
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

MAlonzo/Code/Network/Socket.hs:18:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Network.Socket’
    Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
18 | import Network.Socket
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

then you need to make sure you have the network package installed. Run cabal install --lib network to install it and try compiling again. Once it compiles, start the program by running ./echo-server. In a different terminal tab/window, run telnet localhost 7000 and type in Hello World!. The echo-server will echo what you just typed and exit.