WxHaskell/Windows
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 2nd 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
.