WxHaskell/Windows: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:02, 2 February 2012

Installing on Windows

Follow SkyTreeBird's guide. It which walks you through the basic steps

wx-config
wxPack
setting up environment variables
cabal install wx

Note that the best way to refer to WxWidgets in your PATH is probably to use the WXWIN variable that you set, eg. %WXWIN%/lib/gcc_dll

The guide has been tested with the following configurations. Others may work too:

Windows	Haskell Platform	wxWidgets
XP	2010.2.0.0	2.8.10
7	2011.2.0.1	2.8.12

Troubleshooting installation with cabal

These remarks refer to wx-0.13.2 and Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 on Windows 7.

Cabal package wx depends on wxcore which depends on wxdirect. By default cabal installs on a per user base, thus wxdirect.exe will be installed to c:\Users\<YOUR NAME>\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\. This folder must be in your PATH for cabal install wxcore to succeed.

Package wxcore-0.13.2 does not work well with wx-config revision 21 2006-10-19 (downloaded from here on Feb 2^nd 2012). If cabal install wxcore fails with an output containing "Usage: wx-config [options]" try this:

cabal unpack wxcore
cd wxcore-0.13.2
edit Setup.hs and comment out/remove the line containing "wx-config" ["--version"]
runhaskell.exe Setup.hs configure --user
runhaskell.exe Setup.hs build
runhaskell.exe Setup.hs install

Finally call cabal install wx.

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+=== Troubleshooting installation with cabal ===
+These remarks refer to wx-0.13.2 and Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 on Windows 7.
+Cabal package wx depends on wxcore which depends on wxdirect. By default cabal installs on a per user base, thus wxdirect.exe will be installed to <code>c:\Users\<YOUR NAME>\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\</code>. This folder must be in your <code>PATH</code> for <code>cabal install wxcore</code> to succeed.
+Package wxcore-0.13.2 does not work well with wx-config revision 21 2006-10-19 (downloaded from [http://sites.google.com/site/wxconfig/ here] on Feb 2<sup>nd</sup> 2012). If <code>cabal install wxcore</code> fails with an output containing "Usage: wx-config [options]" try this:
+* <code>cabal unpack wxcore</code>
+* <code>cd wxcore-0.13.2</code>
+* edit <code>Setup.hs</code> and comment out/remove the line containing <code>"wx-config" ["--version"]</code>
+* <code>runhaskell.exe Setup.hs configure --user</code>
+* <code>runhaskell.exe Setup.hs build</code>
+* <code>runhaskell.exe Setup.hs install</code>
+Finally call <code>cabal install wx</code>.
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