[Haskell-beginners] Getting Gtk2Hs working in windows

[aditya siram]

Please update the wiki with your findings.
-deech

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Kyle Murphy <orclev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got Gtk2Hs installed finally, although I'm not happy with at least one
> step of the process. First of all, the process outlined on the wiki is
> incorrect, in that the glade installer apparently does not come with
> everything you need in order to build the gtk module. Downloading the dev
> gtk all in one bundle off the gtk site gets you most of the way to a working
> install. It appears the environment variables mentioned in the wiki are also
> slightly off. You need to set the following:
>
> GTK_HOME: Location you unpacked the gtk all in one bundle to.
> INCLUDE: %GTK_HOME%\include
> LIB: %GTK_HOME%\lib
> PATH: %GTK_HOME%\bin
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH: %GTK_HOME%\lib\pkgconfig
>
> Furthermore at least in the configuration I have it appears that running
> "cabal install gtk" will fail. Instead you need to run "cabal install gtk
> --global", and you need to make sure that the cmd prompt you run it from is
> running with administrator permissions. I haven't gotten the glade bindings
> installed yet, but that should only be a matter of time. Most likely I'll
> have to go grab some other dev package off the gtk site.
>
> -R. Kyle Murphy
> --
> Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 20:18, Kyle Murphy <orclev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I read the thread you made. Working on a hunch I downloaded the Gtk+
>> all in one bundle and installed it but used all the environment variables
>> defined by the glade installer (I just changed GTK_HOME to the newly
>> downloaded all in one bundle and updated the other variables as needed).
>> This seems to have fixed the libraries not being found, but it now looks
>> like I'm being bitten by another issue entirely. I'm getting the following
>> error:
>> Registering cairo-0.12.0...
>> Installing library in
>> C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Roaming\cabal\cairo-0.12.0\ghc-7.0.2
>> Registering cairo-0.12.0...
>> setup.exe: internal error: unexpected package db stack: [UserPackageDB]
>>
>> What's weird is that I found a ticket for cabal that's similar to this one
>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/731) but it's specifically
>> in the case of using a custom package db which I don't think I'm doing
>> (unless the gtk package is doing something really weird). Maybe this is a
>> more general issue with the latest version of Cabal? Just in case the output
>> from running cabal --version:
>>
>> cabal-install version 0.10.2
>> using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library
>>
>> I'm going to keep experimenting and hopefully find a way to get this all
>> working.
>>
>> -R. Kyle Murphy
>> --
>> Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 19:23, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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