[wxhaskell-users] Solved: Ubuntu: cabal install wx reports missing wx libraries

[<mac...@gm...>]

Hi,

This is resolved now. The error message was misleading but running
cabal install with --verbose=3 helped:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++

Turned out g++ package was missing, after installing it wxcore built
and installed fine.

As for the misleading "missing libraries" message produced by cabal,
apparently this or a similar issue is already recognised:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/648 so I won't be
raising it against cabal for now.

Regards,
Maciek

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM,  <mac...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my system (Ubuntu Maverick with haskell-platform 2010.1.0.0.1)
> 'cabal install wx' results in the following:
>
> Configuring wxcore-0.12.1.6...
> setup: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
> * Missing C libraries: wx_baseu-2.8, wx_baseu_net-2.8, wx_baseu_xml-2.8,
> wx_gtk2u_core-2.8, wx_gtk2u_adv-2.8, wx_gtk2u_html-2.8, wx_gtk2u_qa-2.8,
> wx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8, wx_gtk2u_aui-2.8, wx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
> provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
> are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
> flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> wx-0.12.1.6 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.6 which failed to install.
> wxcore-0.12.1.6 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
> However:
>
> mmakowski@tallis:~/temp/wxcore-0.12.1.6$ ls -1 /usr/lib/libwx_*.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_fl-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gizmos-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gizmos_xrc-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_ogl-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_plot-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_svg-2.8.so
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8.so
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong or how I can diagnose this further? It's
> my first attempt to use cabal so apologies if I missed something
> obvious.
>
> Thanks,
> Maciek
>