Re: [wxhaskell-users] ANN: wxHaskell 0.12.1.2

[Mads L. <mad...@ya...>]

Hi All,

"cabal install wx" just worked. Great. Earlier I had linker problems
when starting programs compiled with wxHaskell. They have disappeared
now.

/Mads

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 23:55 +0000, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce
> the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2.
> 
> The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install
> wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on
> Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new
> contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work
> 'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use
> Cabal.
> 
> The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be
> built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets
> is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for
> the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal.
> 
> For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now
> be able to install wxHaskell with a simple:
> 
> cabal install wx
> 
> For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites:
> 
> 1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can
> be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
> 2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested
> against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11,
> wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded
> from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of
> the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure.
> 
> Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell.
> 
> cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw
> mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1
> 
> set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config
> set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10
> set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu
> cabal install wx
> 
> I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over
> the next day or so.
> 
> Best Regards
> Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers.
> 
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