[Haskell-beginners] Getting Gtk2Hs working in windows

[aditya siram]

Hi Kyle,
I ran into this exact issue and fixed it on my Windows box at work but
I forgot how. I won't be back there till Monday, can I get back to you
then?

If this is still an issue could send me email on Monday morning to remind me?

thanks...
-deech

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Kyle Murphy <orclev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the instructions provided on
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs to install Gtk2Hs in Windows 7 (64
> bit) and running into problems.
> Originally I was trying to get wxHaskell installed, but it kept crashing
> trying to build the monolithic library due to an apparent bug in the latest
> port of GCC, so after talking with some of the people in #haskell I was
> advised that Gtk2Hs was better supported and might be easier to get working.
> For the most part, that appears to be true but I (as well as several others
> it seems) am running into a problem where cabal can't seem to find quite a
> few of the Gtk+ libraries (specifically z, cairo, gobject, glib, and intl).
> Near as I can tell everything should be functioning, and running pkg-config
> --modversion glib-2.0 outputs "2.20.3" so at least pkg-config seems to be
> able to find glib. Looking in the Gtk+\lib\pkgconfig folder I see pc files
> for everything but z and intl listed. Running cabal install
> gtk2hs-buildtools also succeeds, it's only when I get to the cabal install
> gtk step that things fail.
>
> cmd console output for the usual environment variables:
>
> INCLUDE: C:\libxml\include;C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\include
> LIB: C:\libxml\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\lib
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH: C:\libxml\lib\pkgconfig;C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Gtk+\lib\pkgconfig
>
> I trimmed the PATH output below for everyones sanity. The vast majority was
> stuff in the Windows folder or one of dozens of entries dumped in there by
> some version or other of Java.
>
> PATH:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell\bin;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2011.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2011.2.0.0\bin;
> C:\MinGW\bin;
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell\bin;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin
>
> The exact error I'm getting when building is the following:
> C:\Users\Kyle>cabal install gtk
> Warning: The package list for 'hackage.haskell.org' is 23 days old.
> Run 'cabal update' to get the latest list of available packages.
> Resolving dependencies...
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs:25:2:
> warning: #warning Setup.hs is guessing the version of Cabal. If
> compilationof Setup.hs fails use -DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=x for Cabal version
> 1.x.0 when building (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the 'cabal'
> command)
> [1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      (
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs,
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\dist\setup\Gtk2HsSetup.o
> )
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             (
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\Setup.hs,
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\dist\setup\Main.o
> )
> Linking
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\cairo-0.12.05760\cairo-0.12.0\dist\setup\setup.exe
> ...
> Configuring cairo-0.12.0...
> setup.exe: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
> * Missing C libraries: z, cairo
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
> provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
> are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
> flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs:25:2:
> 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
> building (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the 'cabal' command)
> [1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      (
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs,
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Gtk2HsSetup.o
> )
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             (
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\Setup.hs,
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Main.o
> )
> Linking
> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.05760\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\
> setup.exe ...
> Configuring glib-0.12.0...
> setup.exe: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
> * Missing C libraries: gobject-2.0, glib-2.0, intl
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
> provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
> are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
> flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.
> cabal: permission denied
>
>
> -R. Kyle Murphy
> --
> Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
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