All, I hear there isn't a windows installer yet for ghc-6.10.4. I did a gtk2hs build for ghc-6.10.4 something I'm working on. If it's useful to anyone until the proper build is done then it's here:
http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/gtk2hs-0.10.1-win32-installer.exe I warn that I've not tested it much beyond checking that the packages register with ghc-pkg and load in ghci. It's minimal in the sense that it only includes glib, cairo and gtk, none of the other packages. It doesn't include docs or demos. It does have ghci and profiling libs though. The current win32 build scripts are a little flakey. In particular after the install win32-build-version.sh fails at line 55: cp -a $PREFIX/* ${INSTALL_CLIBS_DIR} || exit 1 This is because $PREFIX does not exist, because we never install to $PREFIX, only to the $DESTDIR. In fact I've no idea how that line is supposed to work. There's no setting in the file (or .conf file) anywhere for the location of the gtk C libs. I see no reason they should be at $PREFIX. Anyway, after doing the last install steps manually and updating the gtk2hs.iss for ghc-6.10.4 and gtk2hs-0.10.1 then it all works ok. By the way, it would be jolly useful to Windows users to continue to post the gtk bundles like we used to do: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/win32/ Those are the bundles produced by the scripts in tools/win32. The -dev version is needed to build gtk2hs from source while the non-dev version is the useful one for users because that's what you need to make deployable gtk2hs apps, like: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/LSystemSetup.exe I'm slightly suspicious of the current tools/win32/download.sh. I appreciate that it takes advantage of the gtk bundle zip file that the gtk people provide now. However, unfortunately they only provide a bundle for one version, the latest version. So if you run the scripts right now you find the download fails because the older bundle file doesn't exist any more. The older version of the download script was more verbose because it had to download individual packages however it was reproducible. The combination of not posting the bundles used to generate the windows installer and not being able to reproduce them oneself makes it rather hard to make a deployable gtk2hs app. The solution is to prepare a fresh gtk bundle oneself and build gtk2hs using it, which on windows has always been a bit of a trial. Sorry if this all sounds like a stream of complaints! :-) I hope some of it is useful. Duncan ps. I noticed on the development page of the website and in the AUTHORS file I'm still listed as a maintainer! :-) I've fixed both. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
