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[wxhaskell-users] ANN: wxHaskell 0.12.1.2

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

Hi all,

On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce
the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2.

The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install
wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on
Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new
contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work
'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use
Cabal.

The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be
built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets
is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for
the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal.

For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now
be able to install wxHaskell with a simple:

cabal install wx

For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites:

1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can
be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested
against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11,
wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded
from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of
the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure.

Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell.

cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1

set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config
set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10
set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu
cabal install wx

I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over
the next day or so.

Best Regards
Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers.

Re: [wxhaskell-users] ANN: wxHaskell 0.12.1.2

[Mads L. <mad...@ya...>]

Hi All,

"cabal install wx" just worked. Great. Earlier I had linker problems
when starting programs compiled with wxHaskell. They have disappeared
now.

/Mads

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 23:55 +0000, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce
> the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2.
> 
> The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install
> wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on
> Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new
> contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work
> 'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use
> Cabal.
> 
> The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be
> built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets
> is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for
> the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal.
> 
> For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now
> be able to install wxHaskell with a simple:
> 
> cabal install wx
> 
> For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites:
> 
> 1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can
> be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
> 2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested
> against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11,
> wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded
> from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of
> the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure.
> 
> Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell.
> 
> cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw
> mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1
> 
> set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config
> set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10
> set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu
> cabal install wx
> 
> I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over
> the next day or so.
> 
> Best Regards
> Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers.
> 
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Re: [wxhaskell-users] [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wxHaskell 0.12.1.2

[Lyle K. <li...@qs...>]

Hi Jeremy,

This build is not working for me, I'm afraid. It does a bunch of good stuff,
like:

parsing: src/eiffel/wxc_defs.e
parsing: src/eiffel/wx_defs.e
parsing: src/eiffel/stc.e
generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcDefs.hs
generated 2439 constant definitions
ok.

But then it dies with:

Please use the --prefix flag (as in wx-config --prefix=C:\wxWidgets)
or set the environment variable WXWIN (as in WXWIN=C:\wxWidgets)
to specify where is your installation of wxWidgets.
setup.exe: readProcess: wx-config "--libs" "--cppflags" (exit 1): failed
cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
wx-0.12.1.2 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.2 which failed to install.
wxcore-0.12.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
exit: ExitFailure 1

Well, I had set the WXWIN variable to /c/wxWidgets-2.8.10, so I don't know
why it would act like I hadn't. I also tried using the --prefix flag. I also
tried using a Windows-style path of C:\wxWidgets-2.8.10. None of this got
any different result.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Lyle

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jeremy O'Donoghue <
jer...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce
> the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2.
>
> The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install
> wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on
> Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new
> contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work
> 'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use
> Cabal.
>
> The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be
> built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets
> is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for
> the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal.
>
> For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now
> be able to install wxHaskell with a simple:
>
> cabal install wx
>
> For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites:
>
> 1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can
> be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
> 2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested
> against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11,
> wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded
> from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of
> the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure.
>
> Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell.
>
> cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw
> mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1
>
> set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config
> set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10
> set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu
> cabal install wx
>
> I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over
> the next day or so.
>
> Best Regards
> Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers.
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> Has...@ha...
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>

Re: [wxhaskell-users] [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wxHaskell 0.12.1.2

[Lyle K. <li...@qs...>]

OK, I figured it out.

In your instructions, instead of 'set' it should say 'export' before the
variable name.

Thanks for putting this package together.

- Lyle

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Lyle Kopnicky <li...@qs...> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> This build is not working for me, I'm afraid. It does a bunch of good
> stuff, like:
>
> parsing: src/eiffel/wxc_defs.e
> parsing: src/eiffel/wx_defs.e
> parsing: src/eiffel/stc.e
> generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcDefs.hs
> generated 2439 constant definitions
> ok.
>
> But then it dies with:
>
> Please use the --prefix flag (as in wx-config --prefix=C:\wxWidgets)
> or set the environment variable WXWIN (as in WXWIN=C:\wxWidgets)
> to specify where is your installation of wxWidgets.
> setup.exe: readProcess: wx-config "--libs" "--cppflags" (exit 1): failed
> cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
> wx-0.12.1.2 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.2 which failed to install.
> wxcore-0.12.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> Well, I had set the WXWIN variable to /c/wxWidgets-2.8.10, so I don't know
> why it would act like I hadn't. I also tried using the --prefix flag. I also
> tried using a Windows-style path of C:\wxWidgets-2.8.10. None of this got
> any different result.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Lyle
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jeremy O'Donoghue <
> jer...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce
>> the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2.
>>
>> The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install
>> wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on
>> Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new
>> contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work
>> 'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use
>> Cabal.
>>
>> The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be
>> built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets
>> is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for
>> the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal.
>>
>> For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now
>> be able to install wxHaskell with a simple:
>>
>> cabal install wx
>>
>> For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites:
>>
>> 1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can
>> be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
>> 2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested
>> against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11,
>> wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded
>> from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of
>> the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure.
>>
>> Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell.
>>
>> cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw
>> mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1
>>
>> set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config
>> set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10
>> set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu
>> cabal install wx
>>
>> I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over
>> the next day or so.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
>> Has...@ha...
>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>>
>
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