Re: [Freebsd-haskell] wxhaskell on freebsd?

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Gabor PALI wrote:

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Tim Matthews wrote:

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Has anyone ever got wxhaskell to work on freebsd?

Yep, I have used it with 6.10.4 back then in February.

I added GHC 6.10.4 (lang/ghc) and wxGTK 2.8.10 (x11-toolkits/wxgtk28-unicode) together with their dependencies from the Ports Collection, installed a fresh cabal-install (0.8.0) manually from sources, added ~/.cabal/bin to my PATH (having wxdirect), removed the latest Cabal library (1.8.0.2) from my ~/.cabal directory with `ghc-pkg unregister Cabal` (since it will not build wxHaskell) then issued `cabal update && cabal install wx` (though it requires a symbolic link from wx-config to wxgtk2u-2.8-config).

After then, I managed to compile and run the example sources (Hello.hs and BouncingBalls.hs) from the wxHaskell Wiki without any problems.

I do not know whether it works with GHC 6.12.2 though.

Cheers, :g

I assumed wx would be required to install and the only additional thing I had to do to get 'cabal install wx' and wxhaskell 'hello world' sample to work was 'ln -s /usr/local/bin/wxgtk2-2.8-config /usr/local/bin/wx-config'. I will probably ask the port maintainer to create this sym link by default. Thanks a lot.