Re: [Gtk2hs-users] GTK2HS and GHC 6.10.2

[Axel S. <Axe...@en...>]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:18, Michael Dever wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I just got a mac and installed ghc 6.10 and gtk2hs using macports,  
> the commands I used were:
> (I think)

Which ghc exactly? 6.10.2 (just released) disallows re-entry from C  
functions that are called by the garbage collector. Thus, Gtk2Hs  
programs that install any callbacks that are not signals will crash  
when these object into which these callback are installed are garbage  
collected.

Cheers,
Axel.

>
>
> sudo port install ghc
> sudo port install gtk2hs
>
> It build perfectly with it.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> http://www.mickinator.com/wordpress
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Peter Verswyvelen  
> <bu...@gm...> wrote:
> Okay thanks, because someone I know recompiled GTK2HS using GHC  
> 6.10.2 on OSX and that seemed to work, so I thought it was just a  
> matter of recompilation, which apparently is untrue. Maybe he was  
> is not using the problematic callbacks.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Peter Gavin <pg...@gm...>  
> wrote:
> On 4/13/09 5:38 PM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> On Windows, you can't install GTK2HS when GHC 6.10.2 is installed.
>
> Are these incompatible?
>
>
>
> At the moment, yes.  The most recent release of Gtk2HS was compiled  
> against GHC 6.10.1, and the binaries created by GHC are not  
> compatible across GHC versions. However, I don't see any reason you  
> can't have both GHC 6.10.1 & 6.10.2 installed (but Gtk2HS will  
> still only work with 6.10.1).
>
> We also have a few problems dealing with callbacks that need to be  
> ironed out before building with GHC 6.10.2 will work.  So it may be  
> some time before a new release will be made.
>
> Pete
>
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