On Wednesday 04 May 2011 22:58:48, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Today I tried to install Gtk2hs. Big mistake!
Last time I tried it, it was quite easy. Now that it uses Cabal, even on Windows you can compile this stuff from source fairly easily. It's just that you have to fiddle with environment variables to make it find stuff.
However...
1. Since the move of haskell.org, the gtk2hs homepage has vanished off the face of the Earth. Is there any danger we might get this back some day?
2. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1203
(In other words, every time you try to cabal install a GTK-related package, it fails during the register step, and you need to hand-edit Gtk2HsSetup.hs to fix the issue.)
Not here.
3. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1209
(In other words, certain GTK-related packages just plain fail to build due to undefined names or missing header files or...)
Not here.
In summary, it's just utterly broken.
Hmm, not so easy. It seems to work fine on linux (I only installed gtk* stuff for trying out leksah, so things might break with other stuff, but gtk, gio, glib, cairo, pango, gtksourceview2 went through without so much as a hiccough). So, by the looks of it, it seems to "just work " on linux, break on OS X and Windows, which might make it hard to pin down.