[Haskell-beginners] Installing packages

[Krzysztof Skrzętnicki]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 00:21, Tymur Porkuian <shooshpanchick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you running "cabal install" from within Cygwin prompt?
>
> No, I'm not running "cabal install", I'm running "runhaskell Setup
> configure" (as written in
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package).
> "cabal" is not even on the PATH, actually. Now I launched this command
> from cygwin, this is what I got:
>
> .../cygdrive/d/libraries/wxcore-0.11.0
> $ runhaskell.exe Setup configure
> warning:
>  Unable to find wxWidgets configuration (wx-config).
>
> checking system:
> error:
>  Unable to find the 'wx-config' program: wx-config
>  Maybe you forgot to run 'make install' on wxWidgets?
>  Otherwise, add the install directory of wx-config to your path.
>
>  Or maybe you are trying to compile with Microsoft Visual C++?
>  If so, you can specify that on the command line:
>  For example: ./configure --with-msc
>
> What is wx-config and where can I get it?
>

You need wxWidgets sources: get them at
http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/#latest_stable .
After that you need to install them appropriately, so that wx-config
will be in PATH.

All best

Christopher Skrzętnicki