[wxhaskell-devel] The 'making wxC build on all platforms thread

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

Hi all,

I have collected together all of the people who I know are making the
effort to build Dave's latest code on different platforms. I'd also like to
introduce Andrej, who is testing wxC in the context of D (so could we go
easy on the Zygohistomorphic Premorphisms and other deep Haskell-ism in
this thread :-)

I'd suggest that we try to pull together all of the experiences into a
single thread - makes it easier for people to keep up.

For the moment, I'd like to bring up my experience with wxC on Windows:

First, you need at least a patch to wx-config-win32 which sorts out library
names (msys libraries are incorrectly named due to a 2.8/2.9 change)

At line 948 of wx-config-win.cpp, you need:
if (cfg["BUILD"] == “debug” && cfg["DEBUG_FLAG"] == “default”)
po["WXDEBUGFLAG"] = “”;

if (cfg["DEBUG_FLAG"] == “1″)
po["WXDEBUGFLAG"] = “”;

.
Second, in wxc/Setup.hs you need to change line 82 (just after output
readProcess “wx-config” ["--libs", "std,gl,stc,xrc,richtext,aui,media",
"--cppflags"] “”

This is needed because wx-config-win does not support the new ‘all’ flag,
and I haven’t had time to fix wx-config-win properly.

Third, the library then builds for me, but fails to link (link errors in
StyledTextCtrl). I hope to work out why tonight or tomorrow.

Best regards

Jeremy