Re: [Haskell-cafe] Some Haskell platformish questions

Duncan, Okay... I'm pretty darned impressed. I downloaded the packages and got my first Haskell/Glade app running in about the same amount of time as it took me to get my first VS.Net app up and running. Thanks for the pointer to GTK2hs. I hope to have a nice app to add to the list of Haskell apps pretty soon. Thanks, David PS -- An extra big thanks to you and Stefan for your responsiveness! On 8/1/07, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:31 -0700, David Pollak wrote:

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Duncan,

Many thanks to you as well!

On 8/1/07, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:48 -0700, David Pollak wrote:

> * Can GHC generate stand-alone executables with all the > dependencies linked in such that I can distribute the single > file without worrying about including a bunch of DLLs/SOs? The > answer seems to be yes, but I wanted to confirm.

Yes, but the same is not true of any C dlls you link to, eg GUI libs like gtk or wx.

Okay... so I'll have to include the (for example GTK2 DLLs) with the distribution...

Yes. Those are available here: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/win32/

As a demo of an windows installer for a prog that uses Gtk2Hs, see: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/LSystemSetup.exe (3.5Mb)

At some point I intend to write some more detailed instructions on this, but in the mean time you can probably figure it out from the example. It's just a matter of putting the right dlls and other file in the right place, the .zip files have the right directory structure all ready, so that's pretty easy.

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I just grabbed a copy and installed it (on Ubuntu... my preferred development platform.)

Note that it looks like Ubuntu doesn't have the latest version yet: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libdevel/libghc6-gtk-dev but that version should be ok for most stuff you want to do.

Duncan

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