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Don Stewart | 12 Oct 03:42
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Congrats. to wxHaskell

I just want to congratulate the wxHaskell team on their new release.
With GHC 6.10 RC, cabal 1.6, and cabal-install 0.6, I was able to
simply,

    cabal install wxcore wx

And it all worked. 

Well done!

-- Don
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Gianfranco Alongi | 12 Oct 20:05

Re: Congrats. to wxHaskell

Is it crash / bug -free?
I know this has been a big issue with WxHaskell, something that made me use HGL.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> wrote:
> I just want to congratulate the wxHaskell team on their new release.
> With GHC 6.10 RC, cabal 1.6, and cabal-install 0.6, I was able to
> simply,
>
>    cabal install wxcore wx
>
> And it all worked.
>
> Well done!
>
> -- Don
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Henk-Jan van Tuyl | 14 Oct 00:53

Re: Congrats. to wxHaskell

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:45:17 +0200, Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> wrote:

> I just want to congratulate the wxHaskell team on their new release.
> With GHC 6.10 RC, cabal 1.6, and cabal-install 0.6, I was able to
> simply,
>
>     cabal install wxcore wx
>
> And it all worked.
>
> Well done!
>
> -- Don

I wish it were all that simple to me, but it turned out to be another
session of eternal yak-shaving for me. My fault I suspect, I should have
known better then to buy a Windows computer.

I downloaded wxWindows 2.8.9 and tried to build it with the supplied  
makefile as
suggested in the installation manual (I have MinGW and MSSY installed):
       make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=debug
but makefile.gcc contains serious bugs.

I then continued to build according to the build instructions on
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Building#building_wxWidgets_on_Windows
but these instructions specifically state the contrib should be built and
the first command to do this failed: cd contrib/src, because there is no
such directory 'contrib'.
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Jeremy O'Donoghue | 14 Oct 10:41

Re: Congrats. to wxHaskell

Hi Henk-Jan,

I fear that I may not be able to help as much as I would like, but I
did want to give a few pointers, specifically for building wxWidgets
correctly.

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:53:57 +0200, "Henk-Jan van Tuyl"
<hjgtuyl <at> chello.nl> said:
>
[snip congrats from Dons - pleasing though they are :-)]
> 
> I wish it were all that simple to me, but it turned out to be another
> session of eternal yak-shaving for me. My fault I suspect, I should have
> known better then to buy a Windows computer.
> 
> I downloaded wxWindows 2.8.9 and tried to build it with the supplied  
> makefile as
> suggested in the installation manual (I have MinGW and MSSY installed):
>        make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=debug
> but makefile.gcc contains serious bugs.

The hardest part of building wxHaskell, paradoxically, is building
wxWidgets,
which is far from trivial, as there are a very large number of options.

I build for Windows using MS Visual Studio, so I can't help specifically
(and
I believe that other maintainers also use VS on Windows), but the
following
may help:
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shelarcy | 14 Oct 11:54

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Congrats. to wxHaskell

Hi Henk-Jan,

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:53:57 +0900, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl <at> chello.nl> wrote:
> I downloaded wxWindows 2.8.9 and tried to build it with the supplied
> makefile as
> suggested in the installation manual (I have MinGW and MSSY installed):
>
> (snip)
>
> Trying to install wxHaskell:
>> cabal install --global wx
> [...]
> install: /usr/local/lib/wxcore.o
> install directory: /usr/local/lib/
> install: /usr/local/lib/wxcore.pkg
> cat config/wxcore.pkg | sed -e "s|\${wxhlibdir}|/usr/local/lib|" | ghc-pkg
> update -
> Reading package info from stdin ... done.
> ghc-pkg.exe: /usr/local/lib/imports doesn't exist or isn't a directory
> (use --force to override)
> "make": *** [wxcore-register] Error 1
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> wx-0.10.5 depends on wxcore-0.10.5 which failed to install.
> wxcore-0.10.5 failed during the final install step. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 2

wxHaskell requires to use cygwin when building on Windows currently. 
Because Cabal doesn't support binary distribution yet. If you want to
build wxHaskell yourself on Windows, you must install cygwin.
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shelarcy | 14 Oct 12:01

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Congrats. to wxHaskell

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:54:45 +0900, shelarcy <shelarcy <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> wxHaskell requires to use cygwin when building on Windows currently.
> Because Cabal doesn't support binary distribution yet.

And there is a lot of incompatibility between cygwin and MSYS. We
don't care about that now.

> If you want to
> build wxHaskell yourself on Windows, you must install cygwin.
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Cygwin

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