Re: [Gtk2hs-users] hiding the console window and creating a standalone app

[Ivan P. <iva...@gm...>]

Hi Justin,

I've compiled programs on windows 7 and the console won't appear. Can you
give us a little more info? Is the code available on github? Can you send
us the console session that you execute and/or your cabal file?

I don't think any of the -static, -optl-static,... options will ever spare
you from having to take GTK's dlls with you. I think these options are only
designed to include the haskell libraries (i.e. gtk2hs) in the final
executable. In the past I have used tools to *bundle* the dlls and the exe
together. These tools extract the dlls in runtime. There are also tools
that turn dlls into libraries that you can link with your exe. I don't use
this anymore, I just redistribute a setup.exe that installs everything the
first time. If you google "bundle dlls with exe", you'll sure find many
tools that you can use.

If you are worried about the number of dlls, size, etc., you might want to
consider using wx. Not that this is the place to advertise it, but for very
simple programs, the fingerprint is smaller and the results are also good.

Cheers,
Ivan


On 3 November 2012 14:31, Justin Greene <jus...@gm...> wrote:

> I have been attempting to get my first gtk2hs application building the way
> I like it and need some assistance at this point.
>
> My first and probably most important issue is that I can't get
> -optl-mwindows to work (e.g. it doesn't hide the console window on windows
> 7 or 8). I put this in the ghc-options like this post:
> http://projects.haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2005/06/23/hiding-the-console-on-windows/<http://projects.haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2005/06/23/hiding-the-console-on-windows/> says
> to, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
>
> Second I've been unable to get my project to build as a single standalone
> executable, no matter what options I specify it always builds with
> dependencies on the gtk .dlls. I have so far tried ghc-options: -static
> -optl-static, cabal-dev install -fstatic -optl-static, ld-options: -static
> etc. Nothing works. I have ensured that the build can only see the
> gtk/include and gtk/lib directory but I still end up with a small
> executable and dependencies upon the gtk .dlls.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
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