WxHaskell/Windows

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1 wxWidgets 2.9 and wxHaskell 0.90.x

Prerequisites:

• MinGW 5.1.6 and MSYS 0.1.11 (these are the latest versions at the time of writing). You must select the C++ compiler option when installing MinGW.

Environment variables:

• CABAL_DIR: C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\cabal
• GHC_VERSION: 7.0.3 (for our convenience)
• WXC_VERSION: 0.90.0.2
• WXWIN: C:\wxWidgets-2.9.3
• WXCFG: gcc_dll\mswu
• PATH: (add these) %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll;%WXWIN%;%CABAL_DIR%\wxc-%WXC_VERSION%\%GHC_VERSION%

Steps:

1. Download wxWidgets 2.9.3 source
2. Extract to C:\wxWidgets-2.9.3
3. Build wxWidgets-2.9.3

   I (who?) compiled it as follows: edit wxwidgets-src-dir\build\msw\config.gcc so that the following values are set:

    SHARED ?= 1
    BUILD ?= release
   

   Then (in cmd.exe, not bash):

    cd wxwidgets-src-dir\build\msw
    mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc
   

4. Download wx-config.exe (a new version for wxWidgets > 2.9) and copy it somewhere into your path, for instance via

   cp wx-config.exe %CABAL_DIR%\bin
   

5. Install the wxHaskell libraries

   cabal install wxdirect
   cabal install wxc
   cabal install wxcore
   cabal install wx
   

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   2 wxWidgets 2.8 and wxHaskell 0.13.x

   Follow SkyTreeBird's guide. It which walks you through the basic steps

   • wx-config
   • wxPack
   • setting up environment variables
   • cabal install wx

   Note that the best way to refer to WxWidgets in your PATH is probably to use the WXWIN variable that you set, eg. %WXWIN%/lib/gcc_dll

   The guide has been tested with the following configurations. Others may work too:

   Windows	Haskell Platform	wxWidgets
   XP	2010.2.0.0	2.8.10
   7	2011.2.0.1	2.8.12

   2.1 Troubleshooting installation with cabal

   These remarks refer to wx-0.13.2 and Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 on Windows 7.

   Cabal package wx depends on wxcore which depends on wxdirect. By default cabal installs on a per user base, thus wxdirect.exe will be installed to c:\Users\<YOUR NAME>\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin\. This folder must be in your PATH for cabal install wxcore to succeed.

   Package wxcore-0.13.2 does not work well with wx-config revision 21 2006-10-19 (downloaded from here on Feb 2^nd 2012). If cabal install wxcore fails with an output containing "Usage: wx-config [options]" try this:

   • cabal unpack wxcore
   • cd wxcore-0.13.2
   • edit Setup.hs and comment out/remove the line containing "wx-config" ["--version"]
   • runhaskell.exe Setup.hs configure --user
   • runhaskell.exe Setup.hs build
   • runhaskell.exe Setup.hs install

   Finally call cabal install wx.

   3 See also

   • WxHaskell/Cygwin

Category: WxHaskell