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

:-( - it seems that cabal install wx isn't how you install it on Windows, not by a long shot. I'm currently a Gtk2hs user. If wx got to the point where cabal install wx either installed wx, including all it's non-Haskell dependencies, or printed out a message "you're a windows user who hasn't installed wxWidgets, here's a handy url for you to click and run then run cabal install wx again" I'd be tempted to switch. I realise that the platform differences makes it annoying, but it would be generally handy for Windows users. I do appreciate the work the wx people are doing for Windows users - it is generally going in the right direction :-) Thanks, Neil On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote:

On 18/04/2010, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 21:41:06 schrieb Daniel Fischer:

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wx-config should have been installed as part of the wxWidgets package. Is that not included in the windows-installer of wxWidgets?

Seems it's not so. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Building says "Windows users should also get the Windows port of wx-config." ( http://sites.google.com/site/wxconfig/

Sadly, the Windows port of wxWidgets doesn't contain wx-config (all of the Unix variants have it - it's a shell script), which is a major problem as this by far the simplest way for the build system to work out the options used to build wxWidgets.

The Windows port of wx-config is an attempt to fix this problem, but only currently supports gcc, hence the restriction to using MinGW (although I guess Cygwin would probably work).

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If wxHaskell could be installed with one cabal command that would be incredibly cool :-)

Well, it's just one cabal command if you have all non-Haskell requirements installed as needed.

An option I am looking at is creating a basic Windows installer for wxHaskell which would contain a compiled copy of wxWidgets and a copy of wx-config, and which would run cabal install wxWidgets out of the box. (basic here means you probably don't get to choose anything at all - not even where the wxWidgets libraries get installed)

Provided that I don't need to maintain a source distribution, this might be a good way forward for some Windows users. The installer would be updated for 'significant' wxWidgets updates (you would be able to 'cabal install wx' at any time wxHaskell is updated once you have all of the libraries)

Any interest - please let me know.

Regards Jeremy _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe