[Haskell-beginners] trouble installing glib on windows 7

[Michael Litchard]

yeah, I think I need that. The point of this exercise is to install leksah.
But now I am re-evaluating if I need it or not.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think you want the third-party pkg-config[1] tool. Are you trying to
> install Gtk2hs by any chance?
>
> -deech
> [1]
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.25-1_win32.zip
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org>
> wrote:
> > I have Haskell Platform installed, trying to install glib. Here's what
> > happens.
> >
> > $ cabal install glib
> > Resolving dependencies...
> >
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs:
> > 25: warning: #warning Setup.hs is guessing the version of Cabal. If
> > compilation
> > of Setup.hs fails use -DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=x for Cabal version 1.x.0
> when
> > build
> > ing (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the 'cabal' command)
> > [1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      (
> > C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-
> > 0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs,
> > C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib
> > -0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Gtk2HsSetup.o )
> > [2 of 2] Compiling Main             (
> > C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-
> > 0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Setup.hs,
> > C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.
> > 02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Main.o )
> > Linking
> > C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\se
> > tup\setup.exe ...
> > Configuring glib-0.12.0...
> > setup.exe: pkg-config version >=0.9.0 is required but it could not be
> found.
> > cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
> > glib-0.12.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> > ExitFailure 1
> >
> >
> >
> > Okay, so all I need to do is install pkg-config
> >
> > $ cabal install pkg-config
> > cabal.exe: There is no package named pkg-config. Perhaps you need to run
> > 'cabal update' first?
> >
> > hmm, so how do I install pkg-config?
> > cabal update didn't help
> >
> >
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