Short version of this post: Looks like the intsall depends on alex and that dependencies doesn't appear to be handled, i.e. I had to install alex before proceeding. why do is it called gtk2hs if you are actually installing package gtk ;-) Where's the demo directory ?! Moral of the story: don't forget to install -dev version of the necessary libraries. For me that was libpango1.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev and libglib2.0-dev. The long version: I have a debian system and I expect the problems I found to be relatively common. Hope this is useful. First I found that I needed package alex. then i was able to cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools however cabal install gtk didn't work: Configuring glib-0.11.0... setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: gio-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install. glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 gtk-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install. pango-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install. cabal install glib Configuring glib-0.11.0... setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 now it's not obvious to me at this point if it's referencing a cabal package glib-2.0 or the unix libs. But I'm going to guess it's actually the unix libs. I do have the unix libs installed : ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines However I remembered that annoying little thing that there is always those darn -dev versions of the lib that you need when you actually want to compile against libraries. So I installed it and got farther along, crashing on pango. Turns out it's the same problem. So install libpango1.0-dev and continue... Stopped again on gtk+, aka gtk libgtk2.0-dev. Installed it, and trudged on. I noticed that the install process stays at this point for a long time: Preprocessing library gtk-0.11.0... But it does eventually continue, and it even completes successfully ! Strangely, at this point, I find that I don't know that I actually have gtk2hs installed. I know that this sound kinda dumb, but I just did "cabal install gtk", right ? I immediately tried "cabal install gtk2hs", which said no such library, and realized that gtk was it :-) So I'd like to run a demo to make sure things are installed properly. Running the demos. ------------------ To get started, you can compile and run one of the programs that reside in the demo/ directory in the respective packages. For example: ~/gtk2hs/gtk/demo/hello:$ make But after the installation the demo directory is nowhere to be found. Do you need to pull it in with darcs ?? Brian On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:42:26 +0200 Christian Maeder wrote:

Andy Stewart schrieb:

...

Hi all,

We plan to release bug fix version : gtk2hs-0.11.1

Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, we will fix it before release gtk2hs-0.11.1

I'm looking forward for this bug-fix release (since gtk2hs-0.11.0 did not work for me).

Because I've almost missed this message I reply to gtk2hs-users@lists.sourceforge.net, too.

Christian

...

We plan to add many new APIs in gtk2hs-0.12.0, so gtk2hs-0.11.1 will be the last stable version with current APIs.

Thanks for your help!

-- Andy

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writes:

Short version of this post:

Looks like the intsall depends on alex and that dependencies doesn't appear to be handled, i.e. I had to install alex before proceeding.

why do is it called gtk2hs if you are actually installing package gtk ;-) Because before gtk2hs cabalized package release (gtk2hs-0.11.0), we put many gtk+ base package in *one* repository.

Currently, glib, gio, cairo, pango, gtk still in repository : http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs

Where's the demo directory ?!

Sorry, we forgot add demo in .cabal file when we released gtk2hs-0.11.0, We will include all demos in gtk2hs-0.11.1

Moral of the story: don't forget to install -dev version of the necessary libraries. For me that was libpango1.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev and libglib2.0-dev.

The long version:

I have a debian system and I expect the problems I found to be relatively common. Hope this is useful.

First I found that I needed package alex.

then i was able to

cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools

however

cabal install gtk

didn't work:

Configuring glib-0.11.0... setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: gio-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install. glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 gtk-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install. pango-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install.

cabal install glib

Configuring glib-0.11.0... setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1

now it's not obvious to me at this point if it's referencing a cabal package glib-2.0 or the unix libs. But I'm going to guess it's actually the unix libs.

I do have the unix libs installed :

ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines

However I remembered that annoying little thing that there is always those darn -dev versions of the lib that you need when you actually want to compile against libraries. So I installed it and got farther along, crashing on pango.

Turns out it's the same problem. So install libpango1.0-dev and continue...

Stopped again on gtk+, aka gtk libgtk2.0-dev. Installed it, and trudged on.

I noticed that the install process stays at this point for a long time:

Preprocessing library gtk-0.11.0...

But it does eventually continue, and it even completes successfully !

Strangely, at this point, I find that I don't know that I actually have gtk2hs installed. I know that this sound kinda dumb, but I just did "cabal install gtk", right ? I immediately tried "cabal install gtk2hs", which said no such library, and realized that gtk was it :-)

So I'd like to run a demo to make sure things are installed properly.

Running the demos. ------------------

To get started, you can compile and run one of the programs that reside in the demo/ directory in the respective packages. For example:

~/gtk2hs/gtk/demo/hello:$ make

But after the installation the demo directory is nowhere to be found. Do you need to pull it in with darcs ??

Brian

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:42:26 +0200 Christian Maeder wrote:

...

Andy Stewart schrieb:

...

Hi all,

We plan to release bug fix version : gtk2hs-0.11.1

Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, we will fix it before release gtk2hs-0.11.1

I'm looking forward for this bug-fix release (since gtk2hs-0.11.0 did not work for me).

Because I've almost missed this message I reply to gtk2hs-users@lists.sourceforge.net, too.

Christian

...

We plan to add many new APIs in gtk2hs-0.12.0, so gtk2hs-0.11.1 will be the last stable version with current APIs.

Thanks for your help!

-- Andy

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

Sebastian Fischer writes:

Hello,

On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Andy Stewart wrote:

...

Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, we will fix it before release gtk2hs-0.11.1

I have just installed the new Haskell Platform under Mac OS X 10.5. With the previous installation of GHC 6.10.4 I managed to install gtk2hs manually so I think I have all required Unix libs.

Now, I tried to install gtk2hs from Hackage but didn't succeed.

cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools

works fine but

cabal install gtk

fails with the message

Configuring gtk-0.11.0... setup: ./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/IconTheme.chs: invalid argument cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: gtk-0.11.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1

The dependencies seem to be installed properly:

# ghc-pkg --user list | grep 0.11.0 cairo-0.11.0 gio-0.11.0 glib-0.11.0 pango-0.11.0

Has anyone experienced this before? Googling the error message brings up a related problem under Solaris but no solution. It's a bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, that IconTheme.chs contain some UTF-8 character that can't handle by gtk2hs/gtk/Gtk2HsSetup.hs

You can fix this problem with two solutions: 1) Change your locate to UTF-8. 2) Or download darcs version of gtk2hs (darcs get http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs). Cheers, -- Andy