<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi A. Mc.,</div><div><br></div><div>Just in case it helps:</div><div><br></div><div>Its perfectly fine to create a Haskell windows desktop application in Gtk. I've done it, and I deployed commercial desktop applications in the past (AFAIK, they were in production for over a decade without issues and they may still be used). Gtk has a mailing list that, as of last year, was still active: <span><span><a href="mailto:gtk2hs-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">gtk2hs-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>. It's *very* low traffic.<br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>If installing or getting gtk to work gives you headaches, you may want to consider Wx. I had some issues last time I tried wx on mac (IIRC 2020), but those issues may no longer be there.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions, feel free to drop me a line. I may not be able to spend time debugging low-level details, but I may be able to help if I hit the same roadblock.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Ivan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 20:08, Branimir Maksimovic <<a href="mailto:branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I wouldn't go that route on Windows. I would make my winapi lib
wrapper,\and make <br>
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<p>standard Windows GUI. Perhaps someone did that already.</p>
<p>Greets, Branimir.<br>
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<div>On 28.2.21. 1:41 пре подне, A. Mc.
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,<br>
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<div>I'm attempting to use GTK+3 to create a Desktop, but I am
having a problem installing all of the dependencies. I keep
getting the following error: </div>
<div>GUI <span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">cabal: version >=0.9.0 of pkg-config is required</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">I am using Cygwin on a Windows 10 operating system. What is </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">needed to fix this? Is this the best way to do a </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">desktop GUI in Haskell?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks in advance and thank you for your time.</span></div>
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