fs2 Stream scala No implicit of type : Stream.Compiler[Eval,G_]

Question

I'm trying to create a Stream[Eval, String] as follows :

import cats.Eval
import cats.effect.{ExitCode, IO, IOApp}
import fs2._

object StringEval extends IOApp {

  def evalString: Eval[String] = Eval.always{
      val r = new scala.util.Random(31)
      r.nextString(4)
    }

  override def run(args: List[String]): IO[ExitCode] = {

    Stream
      .eval(evalString)
      .repeat
      .compile
      .lastOrError
      .start
      .as(ExitCode.Success)

  }
}

But the problem is that I'm getting a compilation error saying :

Error:(17, 8) could not find implicit value for parameter compiler: fs2.Stream.Compiler[[x]cats.Eval[x],G]
      .compile

I can't seem to get the error ? what am I missing? What does the error refer to ?

Answer 1

Fs2 Stream.Compiler is not found (could not find implicit value Compiler[[x]F[x],G])

Fs2 Stream#compile now requires a Sync[F]

Eval doesn't have instance of Sync, IO does.

Try

def evalString: IO[String] = {
  val r = new scala.util.Random(31)
  Sync[IO].delay(r.nextString(4))
}

Stream
  .eval(evalString)
  .repeat
  .compile
  .lastOrError
  .start
  .as(ExitCode.Success)