On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:22:15PM +0100, Arnaud Bailly wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install timeplot and splot on a windows 7 host, using Haskell platform 2012.2.0.0, and I have troubles installing HSChart.
First difficulties were installing cairo, which requires Gtk+ libraries and headers. I installed those using a Gtk+-bundle, first in c:\Program Files\. I had to move to d:\soft (eg. a directory without spaces) to be able to install cairo.
Then I tried to install Chart and at first failed with a cryptic 'Exit Failure 1' error from cabal. I succeeded when I redirected cabal output to a file, eg: cabal install > out 2<&1 whereas a plain 'cabal install' failed.
Then I managed to install splot and timeplot. I then tried to use Chart to draw a simple chart, following http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Chart/0.16/doc/html/Graphics-Ren... it hang forever with a CPU at 100%.
No idea if it's related, but hanging forever with the CPU at 100% reminds me of this: http://code.google.com/p/diagrams/issues/detail?id=71 Unfortunately, GTK + cairo are notoriously difficult to install on OSX and Windows. -Brent