WxHaskell/Windows

Installing on Windows

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

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.

See also

• WxHaskell/Cygwin