[Haskell-cafe] incompatibility issues in installing wxHaskell 0.10.3 with GHCi 6.8.2 on Windows XP Pro

[Benjamin L. Russell]

Perhaps this is not the best mailing list for this
issue, but since this problem involves a library for
Haskell and is not a bug of GHC proper, I thought this
would be a better place than the Glasgow-haskell-bugs
mailing list....

I tried installing wxHaskell 0.10.3 with GHCi 6.8.2
already installed on Windows XP Professional Service
Pack 2, but every time I run the
wxhaskell-register.bat script to install the library,
the following error message appears (I am installing
on the Japanese version of Windows XP at work, so some
of the error messages are in Japanese, which I shall
translate accordingly below):

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- register packages
Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H
askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wxcore.pkg"
... done.
WARNING: unversioned dependencies are deprecated, and
will NOT be accepted by GH
C 6.10: base haskell98
ghc-pkg: C:\Documents doesn't exist or isn't a
directory (use --force to overrid
e)
Reading package info from "C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Benjamin\\My Documents\\H
askell\\Libraries\\wxHaskell\\wxhaskell-0.10.3\\bin\\wx.pkg"
... done.
ghc-pkg: dependency wxcore-0.10.3 doesn't exist (use
--force to override)
error:
  Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg".
  Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc
installed?

‘±s‚·‚é‚ɂ͉½‚©ƒL[‚ð‰Ÿ‚µ‚Ä‚­‚¾‚³‚¢ . . .
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The first paragraph above means the following:

"        1 file copied.
Syntax error in command.
Syntax error in command."

The final line above means the following:

"Press any key to continue...."

However, there do not seem to be any errors in my
unmodified wxhaskell-register.bat file, quoted below:

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@SET wxclibname=wxc-msw2.6.4-0.10.3
@SET generate=yes
@ECHO OFF

IF "%1"==""       GOTO noarg
IF "%1"=="--help" GOTO help
IF "%1"=="-?"     GOTO help
IF "%1"=="/?"     GOTO help
GOTO installarg

:installarg
SET installdir=%1
GOTO check

:noarg
COPY /B /Y setcd setcd.bat
CD ..
CD >> bin\setcd.bat
CD bin
CALL setcd.bat
DEL setcd.bat
SET installdir=%CURDIR%
GOTO check

:check
IF "%generate%"=="yes" GOTO generate
GOTO checkfile

:generate
IF NOT EXIST %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg GOTO
notfound
COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wx-partial.pkg
%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg
ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >>
%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg
ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib        >>
%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg
COPY /Y %installdir%\bin\wxcore-partial.pkg
%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg
ECHO import-dirs:%installdir%\lib\imports >>
%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg
ECHO library-dirs:%installdir%\lib        >>
%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg
GOTO checkfile

:checkfile
IF NOT EXIST "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg" GOTO notfound

:install
ECHO - register packages
SET wxhlibdir=%installdir%\lib
ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wxcore.pkg"
ghc-pkg update "%installdir%\bin\wx.pkg"

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO regerror

ECHO.
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO copyNT
ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system
directory (%WINDIR%\system)
COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll
%WINDIR%\system\%wxclibname%.dll
GOTO checkcopy

:copyNT
ECHO - copy %wxclibname%.dll to the windows system
directory (%WINDIR%\system32)
COPY %installdir%\lib\%wxclibname%.dll
%WINDIR%\system32\%wxclibname%.dll

:checkcopy
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO copyerror

ECHO - done!
GOTO end

:regerror
ECHO error:
ECHO   Unable to register the package using "ghc-pkg".

ECHO   Maybe you have an incompatible version of ghc
installed?
ECHO.
goto end

:copyerror
ECHO error:
ECHO   Unable to copy dynamic link libraries to the
system folder. 
ECHO   This is not a real problem but you will have to
add the wxHaskell 
ECHO   library directory to your PATH environment
variable. 
ECHO.
ECHO   The library directory is: %installdir%\lib
ECHO.
goto end

:notfound
ECHO error:
ECHO   Unable to find the wxHaskell packages
(bin\wx.pkg)
ECHO   Maybe the installation directory is not
properly specified?
ECHO.
GOTO help

:help
ECHO usage:
ECHO   wxhaskell-register [installdir]
ECHO.
ECHO (or just double click on the batch file from the
explorer)
ECHO.
GOTO end

:end
PAUSE
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immediately before this line -----

Any ideas?  Has anybody else encountered this bug?

Benjamin L. Russell