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:
| Windows | Haskell Platform |
|---|---|
| XP | 2010.2.0.0 |
| 7 | 2011.2.0.1 |
Building your own wxWidgets (optional)
Note: Microsoft compilers are no longer supported. The cabal build system cannot understand the output of wx-config for Microsoft compilers.
Note: The Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 installer shipped without C++ support. If you want to build wxHaskell on Windows using this Haskell Platform, please see [1]
Using the MSYS shell, and making sure that you have the C++ compiler option installed for MinGW as it is 'not' the default:
> cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw > mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1
This will take quite some time and generate lots of text in the MSYS shell. Assuming it is successful, a DLL is generated in /c/path/to/wxWidgets/gcc_dll, which you will need to copy to a location where it can be found when running your executables.