On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:22 -0400, Jeff Heard wrote:
As this continues to build, I guess the issue for me, and I'm willing to help with it, is trying to figure out how to redistribute programs written with gtk2hs. on Windows, people can just install the gtk2hs libraries via the installer -- although this does bork a little because it assumes you have a haskell compiler on the machine.
It's quite possible to make a Windows installer that just bundles the Gtk+ dlls and does not need ghc etc. For example, here's a demo: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/LSystemSetup.exe It's an installer (built using InnoSetup - which is Free software) for a Haskell program that uses gtk2hs and opengl. It installs on a clean machine, no gtk2hs or ghc is required. Constructing such an installer is not hard. The zip files containing all the necessary gtk dlls are available so it's just a matter of the installing them all along with your application .exe file. Duncan