[wxhaskell-devel] Build

[harry <vol...@ho...>]

Building Gtk2Hs on Windows is very straightforward. After Gtk+ is included
in the path, cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools will install all the
executables needed for building the bindings, but no libraries. cabal
install gtk will then install the library.

OTOH, cabal install wxdirect installs both the helper executable and a
library. 3 other packages then have to be installed, at least one of which
requires environment variables pointing to bits of earlier packages. One
upshot of all this is that it's well nigh impossible to use wxhaskell with
cabal-dev, whereas with gtk2hs it's really easy (install gtk2hs-buildtools
outside the sandbox, then gtk will use it in the sandbox).