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[wxhaskell-users] Building on Windows 7

[Dan H. <dev...@gm...>]

I have been trying to build the latest version on windows 7 for a few days
now. I have not managed to get it. The furthest I have gotten has given me
an error-dump from cabal about /include/wx/string.h after [22 of 22]...
\WXCore.o

I built wx in the way that was prescribed by the wiki page. I then set the
environment variable WXWIN and WXCFG properly. When I tried to run cabal
install wx, it failed telling me I didn't have a long list of C libraries. I
then ran cabal install wx --extra-include-dirs = "" --extra-lib-dirs "" to
point to the libraries in my mingw distribution. I am using my own instead
of the one that comes with the haskell platform because the latter didn't
seem to have the libraries. I don't know. I am very new to Haskell.

Anyway, running with the extra flags worked except for the error I described
in the first line of this message. I don't know what to do. I have noticed
that wxhaskell's wiki page does not state that it has been successfully
built on Win7. Is this the state of things?

Thanks

-Dan

Re: [wxhaskell-users] Building on Windows 7

[Jeremy O'D. <jod...@fa...>]

Hi Dan,

I don't know of anyone who has done this. I have a 64 bit Windows 7  
machine at work which has never had wxHaskell on it (in fact, it  
hasn't had Haskell at all!), so I'll try a clean build in the next  
day or two and let you know what happened (I'll be using the latest  
Haskell Platform as my ghc install). If I run into any issues it may  
take me a few days to fix them, but if all is smooth, I'll document  
exactly what I did (if it differs in any way from the wiki).

Ghc includes its own copy of MinGW, so I don't think it's a good idea  
to point to the libraries from your own installation. However, if  
there's any issue, I'll hopefully find it very soon.

Regards
Jeremy

On 3 May 2010, at 05:41, Dan Haraj wrote:

> I have been trying to build the latest version on windows 7 for a  
> few days now. I have not managed to get it. The furthest I have  
> gotten has given me an error-dump from cabal about /include/wx/ 
> string.h after [22 of 22]... \WXCore.o
>
> I built wx in the way that was prescribed by the wiki page. I then  
> set the environment variable WXWIN and WXCFG properly. When I tried  
> to run cabal install wx, it failed telling me I didn't have a long  
> list of C libraries. I then ran cabal install wx --extra-include- 
> dirs = "" --extra-lib-dirs "" to point to the libraries in my mingw  
> distribution. I am using my own instead of the one that comes with  
> the haskell platform because the latter didn't seem to have the  
> libraries. I don't know. I am very new to Haskell.
>
> Anyway, running with the extra flags worked except for the error I  
> described in the first line of this message. I don't know what to  
> do. I have noticed that wxhaskell's wiki page does not state that  
> it has been successfully built on Win7. Is this the state of things?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan
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Re: [wxhaskell-users] Building on Windows 7

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

Hi Dan,

I have confirmed the problem exists, but it's really a Haskell
Platform (rather than Windows 7)issue - the latest Haskell
Platform doesn't include C++ support. Workaround is to use the
previous Haskell Platform version. I'm posting to Haskell list to
see if there's a work-around.

Regards
Jeremy

On Mon, 03 May 2010 00:41 -0400, "Dan Haraj" <dev...@gm...>
wrote:

I have been trying to build the latest version on windows 7 for a
few days now. I have not managed to get it. The furthest I have
gotten has given me an error-dump from cabal about
/include/wx/string.h after [22 of 22]... \WXCore.o



I built wx in the way that was prescribed by the wiki page. I
then set the environment variable WXWIN and WXCFG properly. When
I tried to run cabal install wx, it failed telling me I didn't
have a long list of C libraries. I then ran cabal install wx
--extra-include-dirs = "" --extra-lib-dirs "" to point to the
libraries in my mingw distribution. I am using my own instead of
the one that comes with the haskell platform because the latter
didn't seem to have the libraries. I don't know. I am very new to
Haskell.



Anyway, running with the extra flags worked except for the error
I described in the first line of this message. I don't know what
to do. I have noticed that wxhaskell's wiki page does not state
that it has been successfully built on Win7. Is this the state of
things?



Thanks



-Dan

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Re: [wxhaskell-users] Building on Windows 7

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

Hi Dan,

I believe it's pretty difficult to build Haskell Platform for
Windows as it is far from trivial to build some of the C
libraries which are wrapped. I have a (horrible) work-around for
the problem on the latest Haskell Platform - you'll see it in
another mail.

Regards
Jeremy

On Tue, 04 May 2010 16:23 -0400, "Dan Haraj" <dev...@gm...>
wrote:

Thanks for your help Jeremy,



I'll look into using an older version for now. Or, would it also
be possible for me to set up an equivalent platform by hand? I
would like to use the latest versions of all the tools, and I
wouldn't mind actually learning what is in the platform anyway.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue
<[1]jer...@gm...> wrote:

Hi Dan,

I have confirmed the problem exists, but it's really a Haskell
Platform (rather than Windows 7)issue - the latest Haskell
Platform doesn't include C++ support. Workaround is to use the
previous Haskell Platform version. I'm posting to Haskell list to
see if there's a work-around.

Regards
Jeremy

On Mon, 03 May 2010 00:41 -0400, "Dan Haraj"
<[2]dev...@gm...> wrote:

I have been trying to build the latest version on windows 7 for a
few days now. I have not managed to get it. The furthest I have
gotten has given me an error-dump from cabal about
/include/wx/string.h after [22 of 22]... \WXCore.o

I built wx in the way that was prescribed by the wiki page. I
then set the environment variable WXWIN and WXCFG properly. When
I tried to run cabal install wx, it failed telling me I didn't
have a long list of C libraries. I then ran cabal install wx
--extra-include-dirs = "" --extra-lib-dirs "" to point to the
libraries in my mingw distribution. I am using my own instead of
the one that comes with the haskell platform because the latter
didn't seem to have the libraries. I don't know. I am very new to
Haskell.

Anyway, running with the extra flags worked except for the error
I described in the first line of this message. I don't know what
to do. I have noticed that wxhaskell's wiki page does not state
that it has been successfully built on Win7. Is this the state of
things?

Thanks

-Dan

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Re: [wxhaskell-users] Building on Windows 7

[Dan H. <dev...@gm...>]

Thanks for the help, Jeremy. I managed to get it working. I tried just
copying my entire mingw distribution over the one that comes with the
platform, and everything worked out. I'll post if that breaks any other
libraries or anything. Hopefully the fix is exactly that straightforward
until the platform gets updated/"fixed"

- Dan

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue <
jer...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> I believe it's pretty difficult to build Haskell Platform for Windows as it
> is far from trivial to build some of the C libraries which are wrapped. I
> have a (horrible) work-around for the problem on the latest Haskell Platform
> - you'll see it in another mail.
>
> Regards
> Jeremy
>
>  On Tue, 04 May 2010 16:23 -0400, "Dan Haraj" <dev...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help Jeremy,
>
> I'll look into using an older version for now. Or, would it also be
> possible for me to set up an equivalent platform by hand? I would like to
> use the latest versions of all the tools, and I wouldn't mind actually
> learning what is in the platform anyway.
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue <
> jer...@gm...> wrote:
>
>  Hi Dan,
>
> I have confirmed the problem exists, but it's really a Haskell Platform
> (rather than Windows 7)issue - the latest Haskell Platform doesn't include
> C++ support. Workaround is to use the previous Haskell Platform version. I'm
> posting to Haskell list to see if there's a work-around.
>
> Regards
> Jeremy
>
>   On Mon, 03 May 2010 00:41 -0400, "Dan Haraj" <dev...@gm...> wrote:
>
>  I have been trying to build the latest version on windows 7 for a few
> days now. I have not managed to get it. The furthest I have gotten has given
> me an error-dump from cabal about /include/wx/string.h after [22 of 22]...
> \WXCore.o
>
> I built wx in the way that was prescribed by the wiki page. I then set the
> environment variable WXWIN and WXCFG properly. When I tried to run cabal
> install wx, it failed telling me I didn't have a long list of C libraries. I
> then ran cabal install wx --extra-include-dirs = "" --extra-lib-dirs "" to
> point to the libraries in my mingw distribution. I am using my own instead
> of the one that comes with the haskell platform because the latter didn't
> seem to have the libraries. I don't know. I am very new to Haskell.
>
> Anyway, running with the extra flags worked except for the error I
> described in the first line of this message. I don't know what to do. I have
> noticed that wxhaskell's wiki page does not state that it has been
> successfully built on Win7. Is this the state of things?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan
>
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