Re: [wxhaskell-devel] Windows

[Jeremy O'D. <jer...@gm...>]

Hi Brian,

AFAIK, you should have both libwx_msu-2.8.dll and libwx_msu-2.8.a. While
the exact names differ slightly, this is basically what my (working)
wxWidgets build contains, (in my case it is in /usr/local/lib, but I
have a Cygwin install, rather than MSys).

The .a files are normally generated using reimp.exe, I think (at least
this is what happens for wxc) - they are needed because gcc doesn't
understand the import libraries normally generated with Microsoft tools
(MSFT C++ compiler would produce libwx_msu-2.8.dll and
libwx_msu-2.8.lib, but without a .a file, gcc platform can only use the
DLL by ordinal, which is no use to anyone).

I started to play with the wx-config.exe at
http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/. It seems to give sensible results for
me, and supports MSys, Cygwin and Microsoft compilers, so it stands a
good chance of working for you (e.g. on my wxWidgets, which was compiled
with VS2008), it generates:

C:\utils>wx-config --libs --prefix=c:\utils\wxWidgets-2.8.10 --cppflags
/MT /DWIN32 /D__WXMSW__ /D_UNICODE
/Ic:\utils\wxWidgets-2.8.10\lib\vc_lib\mswu
/Ic:\utils\wxWidgets-2.8.10\include /D_WINDOWS /GR /EHsc
   /LIBPATH:c:\utils\wxWidgets-2.8.10\lib\vc_lib wxmsw28u.lib wxtiff.lib
   wxjpeg.lib wxpng.lib wxzlib.lib wxregexu.lib wxexpat.lib kernel32.lib
   user32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib wxregexu.lib winspool.lib winmm.lib
   shell32.lib comctl32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib rpcrt4.lib
   advapi32.lib wsock32.lib

I started to look in this direction because the shell-scripted wx-config
doesn't give any sort of helpful result of wxWidgets built on the
Microsoft toolset, but work commitments meant I didn't get far. On an
Msys platform, I'd expect the .lib above to be replaced with .a (and
your set of libraries may differ depending on whether you have a
monolithic build.

Hope this helps a little.

Regards
Jeremy

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00 -0600, "Brian Lewis" <br...@lo...> wrote:
> I'm not having any luck with Windows.
> 
> I install
>   MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make
>   MSYS-1.0.11
>   wxMSW-2.8.10
> 
> In MSYS, I do
>   cd /c/wxWidgets-2.8.10
>   ./configure --with-msw --enable-unicode
>   make && make install
> 
> After that, 'wx-config --libs' works, but I can't get readProcess in
> Setup.hs to read wx-config's output. I think it's because wx-config is a
> shell script. Why does this matter? Can anyone get some variation of
> 'readProcess "wx-config" ["--libs"] ""' to work in Windows?
> 
> I made a dummy wx-config.exe that prints the same stuff 'wx-config
> --libs --cppflags' does; this allows 'cabal configure' to finish, except
> that it complains it can't find library wx_mswu-2.8. /usr/local/lib
> contains libwx_mswu-2.8.dll.a. Does *.dll.a make any sense?
> 
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