Resolving dependencies... Downloading thrist-0.0... Configuring thrist-0.0... Building thrist-0.0... Preprocessing library thrist-0.0... [1 of 1] Compiling Data.Thrist ( Data/Thrist.hs, dist/build/Data/Thrist.o ) Data/Thrist.hs:11:29: Illegal symbol '.' in type Perhaps you intended -XRankNTypes or similar flag to enable explicit-forall syntax: forall . Failed to install thrist-0.0 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: thrist-0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1