[GUI] crass platform? Htk?

[seth@cql.com]

I have freebsd and netbsd, although ghc is only installed on freebsd.  I'll try
to do the build.

On 24-Jan-2003 George Russell wrote:
> Shae Matijs Erisson wrote
> [snip]
>> I've just tried the latest version announced yesterday on the primary
>> haskell
>> list. It works on my Debian Linux box.
>> I haven't tried it on windows, I don't have one available.
>> I don't know if Tcl/Tk works on Mac at all. (but would like to know)
> [snip]
> As one of the authors, I am very grateful for the endorsement.  Always nice
> to receive
> assistance in our quest for world domination ...
> 
> I have tested HTk (and it works) on Windows (both 98 and NT), Linux and
> Solaris.
> Or at least I hope it does; if it doesn't please complain to me ...
> 
> I believe it would work on Mac OS X, because that does indeed have Tcl/Tk
> (almost every
> system does) and GHC.  The compilation needs a Unixy environment, but no more
> than
> say MinGW or Cygwin provide on Windows (I have compiled with both).
> 
> [snip]
>> Admittedly, Tcl/Tk is ugly enough to be called "crass platform" but it would
>> follow the "Worse Is Better" approach.
> [snip]
> You can improve the look of Tcl/Tk somewhat, and add other widgets, by using
> "tixwish" instead of "wish".  
>    http://tix.sourceforge.net/
> If you build HTk with tixwish in your path, it will default to using that
> instead of wish. 
> Or you can switch between the two by setting an environment variable before
> running your
> programs.  Alas though there is a bug in tixwish (reported but as yet not
> fixed) which
> means it won't work on Windows, so there you do have to use wish.
> 
> Only problem is I don't at the moment have access to a Mac (or FreeBSD).  If
> someone would like to build
> binaries for me, I'd be very grateful to help.  However the following
> *allegedly* works, where
> $TAR is GNU tar, and $MAKE is GNU make.  Make sure that ghc, wish, and the
> GNU linker gld or ld are in your
> PATH.  The build process needs other programs, but looking at ./configure's
> output should tell you
> if there's a problem, and if so what.
> 
> wget http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/htk/download/uni-0-99-src.tar.gz
> $TAR -xvzf uni-0-99-src.tar.gz
> cd uni
> ./configure
> $MAKE packages
> $MAKE prepareexports
> $MAKE exports
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> George Russell
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Seth Kurtzberg
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Date: 24-Jan-2003
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