The WinXP binary release of Gtk2hs won't install for me; it seems to expect GHC6.8.1 and refuses to install on 6.8.2. Is there any significant difference in the compilers that would cause it not to work on 6.8.2? Is there a way I can trick it into installing? I really don't want to have to build from source. I've had nothing but trouble trying to get large projects to build within cygwin/mingw/msys. -- ryan
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The WinXP binary release of Gtk2hs won't install for me; it seems to expect GHC6.8.1 and refuses to install on 6.8.2.
Right. It does that on purpose and with good reason. Do you think the error message could be improved? The message should already say that it detected ghc 6.8.2 but that it requires ghc 6.8.1 (or 6.6.1).
Is there any significant difference in the compilers that would cause it not to work on 6.8.2?
Yes. The .hi files are versioned and ghc will reject .hi files created by a different version of ghc.
Is there a way I can trick it into installing?
You could probably trick the installer but it would not help you at all, as all you'll get is ghc reporting that the .hi files were written by ghc-6.8.1 rather than ghc-6.8.2. You are in luck however, I did a build with ghc-6.8.2 just the other day but hadn't announced it yet: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/gtk2hs-0.9.12.1.exe Let me know how you get on, though in general bugs are best reported to the gtk2hs-devel mailing list or in our bug tracker. Duncan
Thanks, works like a charm!
-- ryan
On 3/24/08, Duncan Coutts
You are in luck however, I did a build with ghc-6.8.2 just the other day but hadn't announced it yet: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/gtk2hs-0.9.12.1.exe
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