Re: [Haskell-beginners] fail: wxhaskell with cabal

Yes, I've installed libwxbase2.8-dev: $ dpkg -l 'libwxbase2.8*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.10.1-0ubun wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support c ii libwxbase2.8-d 2.8.10.1-0ubun wxBase library (development) - non-GUI suppo $ dpkg -L libwxbase2.8-dev /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/wx /usr/lib/wx/include /usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8 /usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8/wx /usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8/wx/setup.h /usr/lib/wx/config /usr/lib/wx/config/base-unicode-release-2.8 /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libwxbase2.8-dev /usr/share/doc/libwxbase2.8-dev/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libwxbase2.8-dev/copyright /usr/share/doc/libwxbase2.8-dev/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Chaddaï Fouché wrote:

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Josh Bronson wrote:

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Now I am trying to get wxhaskell to install:

$ cabal install wx [snip] Configuring wxcore-0.12.1.2... setup: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries: * Missing C libraries: wx_baseu-2.8, wx_baseu_net-2.8, wx_baseu_xml-2.8 This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: wx-0.12.1.2 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.2 which failed to install. wxcore-0.12.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1

$ ls /usr/lib/libwx* /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so        /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0.6.0 /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0      /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0.6.0  /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0 /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so    /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0.6.0 /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0

It looks like the libraries are there to me! any ideas?

The shared libraries are there, but did you check if the miscellaneous headers were there ? In other word did you install the libwx*-dev packages as invited to do by cabal in its error message ?

-- Jedaï