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[wxhaskell-users] darcs patch: Add a Cabal file for wxcore. (and 2 more)

[Eric K. <eri...@gm...>]

Any comments or complaints, Jeremy?

Otherwise I'm pushing this tomorrow.
If it actually works, we ought to put wxhaskell on hackage.

Thu Feb 14 17:50:50 GMT 2008  Eric Kow <eri...@gm...>
  * Add a Cabal file for wxcore.
  
  This uses the Make build-type, so we still need our configure file
  and the makefile.

Thu Feb 14 17:53:29 GMT 2008  Eric Kow <eri...@gm...>
  * Add cabal file for high level directory.

Thu Feb 14 17:55:21 GMT 2008  Eric Kow <eri...@gm...>
  * Update online build instructions for Cabal.

Re: [wxhaskell-users] darcs patch: Add a Cabal file for wxcore. (and 2 more)

[shelarcy <she...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:56:37 +0900, Eric Kow <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> Any comments or complaints, Jeremy?
>
> Otherwise I'm pushing this tomorrow.
> If it actually works, we ought to put wxhaskell on hackage.
>
> Thu Feb 14 17:50:50 GMT 2008  Eric Kow <eri...@gm...>
>   * Add a Cabal file for wxcore.

This doesn't work on Windows.

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --with-msc
-=-= Cabal executing: ./configure --with-hc=ghc --with-msc=-=-
operable program or batch file.
Configure failed.

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
-=-= Cabal executing: ./configure --with-hc=ghc=-=-
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Configure failed.

Is this Distribution.Make module's problem?

Distribution.Simple's defaultMainWithHooks defaultUserHooks can run "./configure"
command on Windows environment. But It seems that Distribution.Make's defaultMain
can't run "./configure" commnad on Windows.


But I think this patch is useful.
Your patch doesn't break traditional way. So we can build wxHaskell with traditional
way on Windows.


And I think we should care about at least one more point.
wxcore's makefile uses wxdirect. And wxdirect depends on parsec and time package.
So, I think we must add this dependency for wxcore.cabal file.


Best Regards,

-- 
shelarcy <shelarcy    hotmail.co.jp>
http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/

Re: [wxhaskell-users] darcs patch: Add a Cabal file for wxcore. (and 2 more)

[Eric Y. K. <eri...@gm...>]

> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --with-msc
> -=-= Cabal executing: ./configure --with-hc=ghc --with-msc=-=-
> operable program or batch file.
> Configure failed.

Hmm, I didn't realise you could pass in command line arguments like
that.  (I thought you had to go through --configure-opt)

> Is this Distribution.Make module's problem?
 
> Distribution.Simple's defaultMainWithHooks defaultUserHooks can run "./configure"
> command on Windows environment. But It seems that Distribution.Make's defaultMain
> can't run "./configure" commnad on Windows.

Maybe we could make our own custom Setup.lhs, or check with the cabal
people on #haskell
 
> And I think we should care about at least one more point.
> wxcore's makefile uses wxdirect. And wxdirect depends on parsec and time package.
> So, I think we must add this dependency for wxcore.cabal file.

Good call.

[BTW: do you know any way to help out Gwern and the other people with
build trouble?]

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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Re: [wxhaskell-users] darcs patch: Add a Cabal file for wxcore. (and 2 more)

[shelarcy <she...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:25:23 +0900, Eric Y. Kow <eri...@gm...> wrote:
>> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --with-msc
>> -=-= Cabal executing: ./configure --with-hc=ghc --with-msc=-=-
>> operable program or batch file.
>> Configure failed.

I'm sorry about this error message is incorrect.
I missed copy and pasted error message. Because my environment notice
Japanese error message, so I had to convert error message in English.

Below error message is correct one.

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --with-msc
-=-= Cabal executing: ./configure --with-hc=ghc --with-msc=-=-
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Configure failed.

> Hmm, I didn't realise you could pass in command line arguments like
> that.  (I thought you had to go through --configure-opt)

You're right.
But --with-msc, --with-opengl and --with-stc also work with Distribution.Make
by unknown reason.

>> Distribution.Simple's defaultMainWithHooks defaultUserHooks can run "./configure"
>> command on Windows environment. But It seems that Distribution.Make's defaultMain
>> can't run "./configure" commnad on Windows.
>
> Maybe we could make our own custom Setup.lhs, or check with the cabal
> people on #haskell

I checked Cabal source code. I found that Distribution.Simple's defaultUserHooks
calls "sh configure", but Distribution.Make calls "./configure" directory.

http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-6.8/libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-6.8/libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Make.hs

http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/Distribution/Make.hs

Windows doesn't have Unix shell in default, so "./configure" command causes above error.

I made patch for this problem and sent to cabal-devel list.
I hope cabal people will apply this patch and release new version soonly.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2008-February/thread.html#2112


> [BTW: do you know any way to help out Gwern and the other people with
> build trouble?]

I don't know about wxGTK issues.
I usually use Windows, and I don't have Linux environment.


Best Regards,

-- 
shelarcy <shelarcy    hotmail.co.jp>
http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/