Re: GUI (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] DLL on Windows)

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:57:20 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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I used to recommend Gtk2hs over wxHaskell for GUI development as there was always a version that worked on Windows with the latest GHC release. I think I might have to switch back to recommending C# for GUI development...

The latest revision of wxHaskell can be compiled relatively easy, so that wxHaskell can be used immediately for the latest version of GHC.

Exciting allegation, but it doesn't quite check out with GHC 6.12.1 + cabal 1.8.0.2 and cabal-install 0.8 (see below). I would expect this issue to be easily resolved by specifying "containers <= 0.3.*" in the "wxdirect" package, but cabal is misbehaving (for me) and stating wxdirect needs reinstalled with a supposedly newer version of containers, 0.2.0.1. Thomas [tommd@Mavlo ~]$ cabal install wx Resolving dependencies... Downloading containers-0.2.0.1... Configuring containers-0.2.0.1... Preprocessing library containers-0.2.0.1... Building containers-0.2.0.1... Data/IntMap.hs:182:7: Could not find module `Data.Data': It is a member of the hidden package `base'. Perhaps you need to add `base' to the build-depends in your .cabal file. Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: containers-0.2.0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 wx-0.12.1.2 depends on containers-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. wxcore-0.12.1.2 depends on containers-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. wxdirect-0.12.1.1 depends on containers-0.2.0.1 which failed to install.