WxHaskell/Linux

This page records some user experiences building wxHaskell on Linux. It should be cleaned up!

Debian and Ubuntu

Ghc 6.6 version

For Debian Linux systems:

1. get wxWidgets 2.6
   • aptitude install libwxgtk2.6-dev
2. obtain the wxhaskell-bin-debian-gtk2.6.3-ghc6.6-0.10.3.deb package from sourceforge
   • Install it with dpkg -i

You may need to add /usr/local/lib to your library search path. You can do that by making a file called /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr_local.conf containing:

/usr/local/lib

after adding the file, run ldconfig.

Ghc 6.8 version

1. get wxWidgets 2.6
   • aptitude install libwxgtk2.6-dev
2. get ghc
   • apt-get --target-release=unstable install ghc6
3. obtain the wxhaskell-bin-gtk2.6.3-ghc6.8.2-0.10.3.deb package from sourceforge
   • Install it with dpkg -i

Gentoo

wxHaskell is available in portage for x86, amd64, sparc and ppc

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge wxhaskell

(users of other arches should use their arch keywrods as appropriate)

Fedora Core 6

There is no wxHaskell package to go with the ghc-6.6 packages. You will have to compile it yourself. This a simple matter of:

• Installing wxGTK:
  • yum install wxGTK-devel
• Getting the sources:
  • darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell
• Configuring, building and installing:
  • configure && make && make install && make wx && make wx-install