Hi All, "cabal install wx" just worked. Great. Earlier I had linker problems when starting programs compiled with wxHaskell. They have disappeared now.
/Mads On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 23:55 +0000, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote: > Hi all, > > On behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers, I am very pleased to announce > the release of wxHaskell 0.12.1.2. > > The key feature of this release is that it is now possible to install > wxHaskell entirely using cabal on all targets (with a minor proviso on > Windows). The credit for this achievement is almost all down to new > contributor Brian Lewis, who has worked very hard to make this work > 'just right', and given me (at least) an object lesson in how to use > Cabal. > > The small proviso for Windows machines is that wxWidgets should be > built using MSys - none of the other compilers supported by wxWidgets > is currently working, but we consider this a small price to pay for > the convenience of getting a GUI straight from cabal. > > For Unix machines which have wxWidgets 2.8.x installed, you should now > be able to install wxHaskell with a simple: > > cabal install wx > > For Windows machines, there are a few prerequisites: > > 1) You will need the Windows port of wx-config in your path. This can > be downloaded from http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/ > 2) You will need to compile wxWidgets using MSys. We have tested > against MinGW 5.1.6 with g++ compiler, MinGW Make, MSYS-1.0.11, > wxMSW-2.8.10, which are the latest versions, and can be downloaded > from their respective websites. I used a completely clean install of > the latest Haskell Platform to validate the procedure. > > Please note: all commands to be entered in an MSys shell. > > cd /c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10/build/msw > mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 > > set PATH=$PATH:/c/path/to/wx-config > set WXWIN=/c/path/to/wxWidgets-2.8.10 > set WXCFG=gcc_dll/mswu > cabal install wx > > I will be updating the wxHaskell wiki to reflect these changes over > the next day or so. > > Best Regards > Jeremy O'Donoghue on behalf of the wxHaskell maintainers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > wxhaskell-users mailing list > wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users
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