[Haskell-beginners] gtk2hs [GIMP ToolKit]

[aditya siram]

This was hard for me on Windows too which is why I documented what I
did on the wiki. Please do let me know if the instructions are wrong.

@Tim : I found it best not to use the mingw binary that ships with
Haskell Platform but install it from scratch.

-deech

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Patrick Lynch <kmandpjlynch at verizon.net> wrote:
> Good moring,
> ...I know how hard it is...
> ...this will be my second attempt on a Windows Vista PC...I also have to
> install it on a Mac...
> ...I'll try it again this afternoon...
> Good luck to both of us
>
> It really shouldn't be this hard...bummer...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Baumgartner
> To: beginners at haskell.org
> Cc: Patrick Lynch
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] gtk2hs [GIMP ToolKit]
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I used the same link to install gtk2hs on Windows XP with Haskell Platform
> 2010.2.0 about 3 days ago. I'm a beginner as well. I had a number of
> problems. In the end, I managed to install version 0.11 with some
> extra-work:
> - I added HaskellPlatform/2010.2.0.0/mingw/bin to the PATH (because there is
> my only current gcc.exe)
> - ugly: I copied Gtk+/include/glib-2.0 to a temp folder and copied this
> again *into* Gtk+/include/glib-2.0  (the output of pkg-config looked
> alright...)
> - I repeated the previous steps for other include folders as well
>
> Note: in order to install a specific version of a package you can e.g.
> cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools-0.11.2
>
> Installation of 0.12. failed with the following error:
> [ 5 of 24] Compiling System.GIO.Volumes.VolumeMonitor (
> dist\build\System\GIO\Volumes\VolumeMonitor.hs,
> dist\build\System\GIO\Volumes\VolumeMonitor.o )
>
> System\GIO\Volumes\VolumeMonitor.chs:56:4:
>     Not in scope: `vmDriveStopButton'
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>
> 2011/2/3 Patrick Lynch <kmandpjlynch at verizon.net>
>>
>> ...I'm going to try to install gtk2hs again...
>> ...I'll be using the link http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs
>> ...I'd appreciate any help...
>>
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