<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">and then<div><br></div><div>cabal install soegtk?</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 5/30/11, John Lato <i><jwlato@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: John Lato <jwlato@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell School of Expression (graphics)<br>To: "michael rice" <nowgate@yahoo.com><br>Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org, "Andrew Coppin" <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com><br>Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 8:48 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1062872050"><div class="yiv1062872050gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1062872050gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">From: michael rice <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:nowgate@yahoo.com" target="_blank"
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<div><br></div><div>I think this is fixed in the gtk2hs source tree, have you tried building from the repo?</div><div><br></div><div>> cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools</div><div>> darcs get --lazy <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/">http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/</a></div>
<div>> cd gtk2hs</div><div>> chmod +x bootstrap.sh</div><div>> ./bootstrap.sh</div><div> </div><div>John Lato</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="yiv1062872050gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Is this worth chasing down? I loaded the Haskell Platform, which I assume has some graphics capability (Cairo?). Maybe my time would be better spent getting familiar with that?<br>
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Michael<br>
--- On Sun, 5/29/11, Andrew Coppin <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=andrewcoppin@btinternet.com">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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From: Andrew Coppin <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=andrewcoppin@btinternet.com">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell School of Expression (graphics)<br>
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Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 9:45 AM<br>
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On 28/05/2011 08:06 PM, michael rice wrote:<br>
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> /tmp/glib-0.11.22906/glib-0.11.2/Gtk2HsSetup.hs:190:70:<br>
> Couldn't match expected type `[PackageDB]'<br>
> with actual type `PackageDB'<br>
> Expected type: PackageDBStack<br>
> Actual type: PackageDB<br>
> In the sixth argument of `registerPackage', namely `packageDb'<br>
> In the expression:<br>
> registerPackage<br>
> verbosity installedPkgInfo pkg lbi inplace packageDb<br>
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:<br>
> cairo-0.11.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:<br>
> ExitFailure 1<br>
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There's some sort of glitch with Gtk2hs (on which SOE depends) that causes it to not build with GHC 7.x (?) unless you hand-edit some of the files (!)<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1203">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1203</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br>
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