Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell 0.10.2 on hackage (experimental)
Hi Conal Hi Eric, Thanks for the progress update. Your remark about 2.6 only raises a question for me: What's the deal on wxhaskell and ghci-friendliness? Do we still have to use wxWindows/wxWidgets 2.4.2 in order to run more than one GUI per ghci session? Will it be possible at all any more? I am currently working on a GUI version of GHCi (called GhciGui), which may solve your problem. The GhciGui uses two processes. One for the GUI and one for executing the Haskell code the user inputs. You can also ask GhciGui to spawn a new process, each time you press execute. In this way you can keep executing WxHaskell programs, even if you are running wxWidgets 2.6. After spawning a new process all your targets and modules are also reloaded. However, you do not get this for nothing. When GhciGui spawns a new process all your let bindings will be lost :( But I am wondering if this is an acceptable loss? Greetings, Mads Lindstrøm - Conal On Feb 16, 2008 5:24 AM, Eric Y. Kow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have uploaded an unofficial pre-release of wxhaskell on hackage. It is available as two packages, wxcore and wx. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/wxcore-0.10.2 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/wx-0.10.2 Let me stress that this is only experimental; it is NOT an official release. Summary --- I think this works under Linux and MacOS X, but not under Windows. It seems to work best under MacOS X (10.4 on Intel). If you have any trouble, you are likely going to have to install wxcore by hand (passing in configure flags, etc) and then install wx automatically: cabal install wx General notes - This only works with wxWidgets 2.6. Windows and maybe MacOS X -- The wxcore cabal script is merely a wrapper around the makefile and the configure script. So you'll still need to have make and the ability to run shell scripts. As shelarcy pointed out, this probably does not work for Windows, and you'll have to go the old-fashioned route (using the darcs repository as well). MacOS X --- The configure options that worked for me (wxWidgets) are ./configure --enable-display --enable-unicode --with-opengl --with-mac --without-odbc --enable-mediactrl --disable-monolithic Note that I also had to do sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/wx-config /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin This makes the wxcore package use your version of wxWidgets and not the one that came with the system. Linux - On Linux, I had to supply --with-opengl to the configure script: runhaskell Setup --configure-opt=--with-opengl I noticed also that on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, I had some trouble running sample applications with wxGTK 2.8, so I aptitude installed libwxgtk2.6-dev and specified to wxhaskell to use it instead of the newer version: mkdir -p /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin ln -s /usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-release-2.6 /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin/wx-config runhaskell Setup --configure-opt=--with-opengl Where to next? -- I hope that this makes life a little easier, and that the being on hackage either attracts more users/contributors to wxhaskell. Here are some key questions we need to answer for 0.10.3: * Can we make it possible to run wxhaskell programs under Linux without the --with-opengl flag? Seems to be fine under MacOS X. * Why are people having build trouble lately? * You have to obliterate a patch for wxhaskell on PowerPC, why? * What about the issue that Malcolm pointed out with not linking to the -gl version of wxWidgets [odd; doesn't wx-config tell the right thing?] * What about Gwern's too many symbolic links problem? * Why doesn't wxhaskell work with wxGTK 2.8? I thought we had worked out some compatibility fixes? * What do we need for Windows users to be able to cabal install wx? ... and many more. Please help! -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell 0.10.2 on hackage (experimental)
Hi Eric, Thanks for the progress update. Your remark about 2.6 only raises a question for me: What's the deal on wxhaskell and ghci-friendliness? Do we still have to use wxWindows/wxWidgets 2.4.2 in order to run more than one GUI per ghci session? Will it be possible at all any more? - Conal On Feb 16, 2008 5:24 AM, Eric Y. Kow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have uploaded an unofficial pre-release of wxhaskell on hackage. It is available as two packages, wxcore and wx. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/wxcore-0.10.2 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/wx-0.10.2 Let me stress that this is only experimental; it is NOT an official release. Summary --- I think this works under Linux and MacOS X, but not under Windows. It seems to work best under MacOS X (10.4 on Intel). If you have any trouble, you are likely going to have to install wxcore by hand (passing in configure flags, etc) and then install wx automatically: cabal install wx General notes - This only works with wxWidgets 2.6. Windows and maybe MacOS X -- The wxcore cabal script is merely a wrapper around the makefile and the configure script. So you'll still need to have make and the ability to run shell scripts. As shelarcy pointed out, this probably does not work for Windows, and you'll have to go the old-fashioned route (using the darcs repository as well). MacOS X --- The configure options that worked for me (wxWidgets) are ./configure --enable-display --enable-unicode --with-opengl --with-mac --without-odbc --enable-mediactrl --disable-monolithic Note that I also had to do sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/wx-config /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin This makes the wxcore package use your version of wxWidgets and not the one that came with the system. Linux - On Linux, I had to supply --with-opengl to the configure script: runhaskell Setup --configure-opt=--with-opengl I noticed also that on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, I had some trouble running sample applications with wxGTK 2.8, so I aptitude installed libwxgtk2.6-dev and specified to wxhaskell to use it instead of the newer version: mkdir -p /usr/local/wxhaskell/bin ln -s /usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-release-2.6/usr/local/wxhaskell/bin/wx-config runhaskell Setup --configure-opt=--with-opengl Where to next? -- I hope that this makes life a little easier, and that the being on hackage either attracts more users/contributors to wxhaskell. Here are some key questions we need to answer for 0.10.3: * Can we make it possible to run wxhaskell programs under Linux without the --with-opengl flag? Seems to be fine under MacOS X. * Why are people having build trouble lately? * You have to obliterate a patch for wxhaskell on PowerPC, why? * What about the issue that Malcolm pointed out with not linking to the -gl version of wxWidgets [odd; doesn't wx-config tell the right thing?] * What about Gwern's too many symbolic links problem? * Why doesn't wxhaskell work with wxGTK 2.8? I thought we had worked out some compatibility fixes? * What do we need for Windows users to be able to cabal install wx? ... and many more. Please help! -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ wxhaskell-users mailing list wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ wxhaskell-users mailing list wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users
Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell 0.10.2 on hackage (experimental)
Hi, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:07:04 -0800, Conal Elliott wrote: What's the deal on wxhaskell and ghci-friendliness? Do we still have to use wxWindows/wxWidgets 2.4.2 in order to run more than one GUI per ghci session? Will it be possible at all any more? Sorry. I don't have anything to report about this. I suppose the answer is still yes, but I do not really understand all the underlying issues. -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 pgprs8m9Dx3eh.pgp Description: PGP signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ wxhaskell-users mailing list wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users
