[Haskell-beginners] wxHaskell install errors

Gregory Guthrie guthrie at mum.edu
Tue Jun 5 22:23:15 CEST 2012


I had all of the wxHaskell programs installed and working fine, but now with an update to Haskell Platform and thus also ghci, I need to upgrade all of them (the previously working programs fail) requiring an update for the underlying wxWidgets from 2.8 to 2.9 versions.

I downloaded and built wxWidgets 2.9, since the current wxHaskell libraries require it (I couldn't find any existing binaries online).
The compile seemed to be successful, but when I then try to use it from the wxHaskell programs I get an error that I don't know how to fix:

C: >cabal install wx
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( C:\Users\guthrie\AppData\Local\Temp\wxc-0.
90.0.3-7324\wxc-0.90.0.3\Setup.hs, C:\Users\guthrie\AppData\Local\Temp\wxc-0.90.
0.3-7324\wxc-0.90.0.3\dist\setup\Main.o ) Linking C:\Users\guthrie\AppData\Local\Temp\wxc-0.90.0.3-7324\wxc-0.90.0.3\dist\
setup\setup.exe ...
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.3...
Configuring wxc to build against wxWidgets 2.9

setup.exe: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
* Missing C libraries: wxmsw29ud_all, wxtiffd, wxjpegd, wxpngd, wxzlibd,wxregexud, wxexpatd, wxregexud 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: Error: some packages failed to install:
wx-0.90.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.3 which failed to install.
wxc-0.90.0.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1
wxcore-0.90.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.3 which failed to install.




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