<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all <div>Trying to work out how to get wxHaskell correctly installed on mac os x (10.6.8 snow leopard).</div><div>Have decided to try and get the older version working (0.13) so as to use the pre-installed</div><div>wxWidgets (2.8.8 it seems). I was looking at the wxHAskell install info for mac os x at </div><div>(1) <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/MacOS_X">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/MacOS_X</a> - which only talks about widgets 2.9,</div><div>but I have now been reading</div><div>(2) <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/2.8">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/2.8</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Question: </div><div>The variable "$wxwin" is referred to in the page at link (2) above, where it says: </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; ">"We assume in this guide that the variable <tt style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: monospace; line-height: 16px; ">$wxwin</tt> points to your wxWidgets installation directory, for example: <tt style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: monospace; line-height: 16px; ">~/dev/wxGTK-2.8.10</tt>."</span></div><div><div>And in the page at link (1), step 3, it says:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; ">"Check your path to make sure you are using your wxWidgets and not the default Mac one"</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>Are these referring to the same thing? ( I had originally interpreted 'path' as referring to $PATH.)</div><div><br></div><div>The reference to $wxwin is in instructions for building wxWidgets 2.8 which I should not need to do if I am </div><div>using the already installed 2.8.8 widgets library, but if I echo $wxwin it is blank and does not therefore appear to</div><div>point to my wxWidgets installation directory.</div><div>Is this an issue or is it only relevant to the initial build process for wxWidgets?</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone throw any light on this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks/ Henry</div></body></html>