On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Blue Glacier <blueglacier414@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks. I am still very confused and I don't understand what the difference between webkitgtk3 and webkitgtk-3.0 is and why one requires the other as dependency.

Many Haskell libraries are bindings to C libraries. Those libraries have to come from somewhere else; Cabal cannot operate your system package manager for you, or even figure out which of several you might be using.

pkg-config... think of it as the C version of ghc-pkg. It searches a registry of installed C library packages, and can report details needed to build something that needs to use those packages. cabal knows how to ask pkg-config to search the registry, but not how something in that registry maps to some package name in some system package manager.

I found webkit-gtk3 on macports (I am using a mac), but this did not help. I found webkit-gtk-3-devel and tried to install it, but macports says:

You don't use -devel packages on a Mac; that's a Linux-ism. In MacPorts, a -devel package is an alpha or beta test package and should probably be avoided unless you specifically intend to help test a pending upgrade.

What does `pkg-config --cflags webkitgtk-3.0` in a terminal window say?

Error: webkit-gtk3-devel is not supported for this installation of MacPorts. It requires libc++ be selected as your C++ runtime. Please use webkit-gtk3-devel-2.0 instead

Apple changed the C++ stuff in Mavericks; this breaks a rather large amount of stuff, and requires that alternative packages be used for some things. :/ But since you should not be using -devel packages and you aren't on Mavericks, you can ignore this package.

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