incompatibility issues in installing wxHaskell 0.10.3 with GHCi 6.8.2 on Windows XP Pro
Perhaps this is not the best mailing list for this issue, but since this problem involves a library for Haskell and is not a bug of GHC proper, I thought this would be a better place than the Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list.... I tried installing wxHaskell 0.10.3 with GHCi 6.8.2 already installed on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, but every time I run the wxhaskell-register.bat script to install the library, the following error message appears (I am installing on the Japanese version of Windows XP at work, so some of the error messages are in Japanese, which I shall translate accordingly below): ----- error message begins immediately after this line ----- 1 ÂÌt@CðRs[µÜµ½B R}hÌ\¶ªëÁĢܷB R}hÌ\¶ªëÁĢܷB - register packages Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wxcore.pkg" ... done. WARNING: unversioned dependencies are deprecated, and will NOT be accepted by GH C 6.10: base haskell98 ghc-pkg: C:\Documents doesn't exist or isn't a directory (use --force to overrid e) Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wx.pkg" ... done. ghc-pkg: dependency wxcore-0.10.3 doesn't exist (use --force to override) error: Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg". Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc installed? ±s·éÉͽ©L[ðµÄ¾³¢ . . . ----- error message ends immediately before this line ----- The first paragraph above means the following: " 1 file copied. Syntax error in command. Syntax error in command." The final line above means the following: "Press any key to continue...." However, there do not seem to be any errors in my unmodified wxhaskell-register.bat file, quoted below: ----- text of wxhaskell-register.bat file begins immediately after this line ----- @SET wxclibname=wxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3 @SET generate=yes @ECHO OFF IF "%1"=="" GOTO noarg IF "%1"=="--help" GOTO help IF "%1"=="-?" GOTO help IF "%1"=="/?" GOTO help GOTO installarg :installarg SET installdir=%1 GOTO check :noarg COPY /B /Y setcd setcd.bat CD .. CD >> bin\setcd.bat CD bin CALL setcd.bat DEL setcd.bat SET installdir=%CURDIR% GOTO check :check IF "%generate%"=="yes" GOTO generate GOTO checkfile :generate IF NOT EXIST %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg GOTO notfound COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >> %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib >> %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wxcore-partial.pkg %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >> %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib >> %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg GOTO checkfile :checkfile IF NOT EXIST "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg" GOTO notfound :install ECHO - register packages SET wxhlibdir=%installdir%\lib ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg" ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg" IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO regerror ECHO. IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO copyNT ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system directory (%WINDIR%\system) COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll %WINDIR%\system\%wxclibname%.dll GOTO checkcopy :copyNT ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system directory (%WINDIR%\system32) COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll %WINDIR%\system32\%wxclibname%.dll :checkcopy IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO copyerror ECHO - done! GOTO end :regerror ECHO error: ECHO Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg". ECHO Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc installed? ECHO. goto end :copyerror ECHO error: ECHO Unable to copy dynamic link libraries to the system folder. ECHO This is not a real problem but you will have to add the wxHaskell ECHO library directory to your PATH environment variable. ECHO. ECHO The library directory is: %installdir%\lib ECHO. goto end :notfound ECHO error: ECHO Unable to find the wxHaskell packages (bin\wx.pkg) ECHO Maybe the installation directory is not properly specified? ECHO. GOTO help :help ECHO usage: ECHO wxhaskell-register [installdir] ECHO. ECHO (or just double click on the batch file from the explorer) ECHO. GOTO end :end PAUSE ----- text of wxhaskell-register.bat file ends immediately before this line ----- Any ideas? Has anybody else encountered this bug? Benjamin L. Russell
I just solved the problem by myself: It was a problem
with paths including spaces.
Originally, I had installed wxhaskell-register.bat in
the following directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\Benjamin\My
Documents\Haskell\Libraries\wxHaskell\wxhaskell-0.10.3\bin
However, the directory "Documents and Settings"
includes two spaces, and "My Documents" includes a
space as well.
Therefore, I moved the wxhaskell-0.10.3 directory to
the C:\ top-level directory, thus creating a path
without spaces; viz:
C:\wxhaskell-0.10.3\bin
Running wxhaskell-register.bat there caused it to run
successfully (some of the returned messages are in
Japanese, which I shall translate accordingly below):
----- installation messages begin immediately after
this line -----
1
個のファイルをコピーしました。
1
個のファイルをコピーしました。
1
個のファイルをコピーしました。
- register packages
Reading package info from
"C:\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wxcore.pkg" ... done.
WARNING: unversioned dependencies are deprecated, and
will NOT be accepted by GH
C 6.10: base haskell98
Saving old package config file... done.
Writing new package config file... done.
Reading package info from
"C:\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wx.pkg" ... done.
Saving old package config file... done.
Writing new package config file... done.
- copy wxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3.dll to the windows system
directory (C:\WINDOWS\syste
m32)
1
個のファイルをコピーしました。
- done!
続行するには何かキーを押してください
. . .
----- installation messages end immediately before
this line -----
The first three messages above mean the following:
"1 file copied.
1 file copied.
1 file copied."
The last two messages above mean the following:
"1 file copied.
Press any key to continue...."
(<rant>
I wish that the error messages had been more helpful,
though; "Documents and Settings" is a standard
location for many settings in Windows XP, and the
previous error message "Maybe you have an incompatible
version of ghc installed?" had not been very
informative. Also, there are no instructions on the
"wxHaskell - Download" page
(http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/download.html) to
run the installation batch file in a directory with no
spaces in the path. It seems designed by someone who
never steps outside the world of Linux/UNIX/*NIX
(nothing against UNIX here; I use Mac OS X, which is a
UNIX-based OS, at home myself, but if they are going
to provide an automated Windows installer, they should
at least explain how to use it from the standpoint of
a user used to working in that environment....).
</rant>)
Benjamin L. Russell
--- "Benjamin L. Russell"
Perhaps this is not the best mailing list for this issue, but since this problem involves a library for Haskell and is not a bug of GHC proper, I thought this would be a better place than the Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list....
I tried installing wxHaskell 0.10.3 with GHCi 6.8.2 already installed on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, but every time I run the wxhaskell-register.bat script to install the library, the following error message appears (I am installing on the Japanese version of Windows XP at work, so some of the error messages are in Japanese, which I shall translate accordingly below):
----- error message begins immediately after this line ----- 1 ÂÌt@CðRs[µÜµ½B R}hÌ\¶ªëÁĢܷB R}hÌ\¶ªëÁĢܷB - register packages Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H
askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wxcore.pkg"
... done. WARNING: unversioned dependencies are deprecated, and will NOT be accepted by GH C 6.10: base haskell98 ghc-pkg: C:\Documents doesn't exist or isn't a directory (use --force to overrid e) Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H
askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wx.pkg"
... done. ghc-pkg: dependency wxcore-0.10.3 doesn't exist (use --force to override) error: Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg". Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc installed?
±s·éÉͽ©L[ðµÄ¾³¢ . . . ----- error message ends immediately before this line -----
The first paragraph above means the following:
" 1 file copied. Syntax error in command. Syntax error in command."
The final line above means the following:
"Press any key to continue...."
However, there do not seem to be any errors in my unmodified wxhaskell-register.bat file, quoted below:
----- text of wxhaskell-register.bat file begins immediately after this line ----- @SET wxclibname=wxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3 @SET generate=yes @ECHO OFF
IF "%1"=="" GOTO noarg IF "%1"=="--help" GOTO help IF "%1"=="-?" GOTO help IF "%1"=="/?" GOTO help GOTO installarg
:installarg SET installdir=%1 GOTO check
:noarg COPY /B /Y setcd setcd.bat CD .. CD >> bin\setcd.bat CD bin CALL setcd.bat DEL setcd.bat SET installdir=%CURDIR% GOTO check
:check IF "%generate%"=="yes" GOTO generate GOTO checkfile
:generate IF NOT EXIST %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg GOTO notfound COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >> %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib >> %installdir%\bin\wx.pkg COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wxcore-partial.pkg %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >> %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib >> %installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg GOTO checkfile
:checkfile IF NOT EXIST "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg" GOTO notfound
:install ECHO - register packages SET wxhlibdir=%installdir%\lib ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg" ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg"
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO regerror
ECHO. IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO copyNT ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system directory (%WINDIR%\system) COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll %WINDIR%\system\%wxclibname%.dll GOTO checkcopy
:copyNT ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system directory (%WINDIR%\system32) COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll %WINDIR%\system32\%wxclibname%.dll
:checkcopy IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO copyerror
ECHO - done! GOTO end
:regerror ECHO error: ECHO Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg".
ECHO Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc installed? ECHO. goto end
:copyerror ECHO error: ECHO Unable to copy dynamic link libraries to the system folder. ECHO This is not a real problem but you will have to add the wxHaskell ECHO library directory to your PATH environment variable. ECHO. ECHO The library directory is: %installdir%\lib ECHO. goto end
:notfound ECHO error: ECHO Unable to find the wxHaskell packages (bin\wx.pkg) ECHO Maybe the installation directory is not properly specified? ECHO. GOTO help
:help ECHO usage: ECHO wxhaskell-register [installdir] ECHO. ECHO (or just double click on the batch file from the explorer) ECHO. GOTO end
:end PAUSE ----- text of wxhaskell-register.bat file ends immediately before this line -----
Any ideas? Has anybody else encountered this bug?
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