Re: [wxhaskell-devel] Build

[Blair A. <mrb...@gm...>]

I agree that the current deployment system for wxHaskell is not ideal and
we should probably look into changing it. Does anyone have any ideas as to
how we could go about this?

The logical first step seems to be to combine the 3 packages (wxcore, wx,
wxc) into some form of singly installed package. I'm a novice when it comes
to cabal so not sure how what the effects of such a change could be.

I appreciate that cabal is a great system for installing Haskell packages
but perhaps we should provide additional install methods that also come
pro-bundled with wxWidgets, this way we can control the version that we
ship with - again the issue comes with how to install them on different
platforms and in a controlled manner.

These are just a few ideas. I'd be willing to work on additional deployment
methods if anyone wants to take this on and needs help (as I say I'm
possibly too novice at wxHaskell and Cabal to get this right on my own).

Many thanks,
Blair


On 30 May 2013 19:04, harry <vol...@ho...> wrote:

> 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).
>
>
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