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

[Henk-Jan v. T. <hj...@ch...>]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:25:01 +0100, <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.


> 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.
>

I have tried reproducing this, but my Ubuntu installation on a virtual PC  
cannot connect to Internet. With a search on Internet, I found the advice  
to compile with -v3 for more information.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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