[Haskell-cafe] Re: Compiling Blobs

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Sorry guys, this email also got in my personal email box, I did not
mention to send this to the cafe. And with this message this is double
spam, duh.

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 20:10 +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> Hi Miguel!
> 
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> Yes, I also took the latest darcs version of wxHaskell, HaXml 1.19.2,
> and polyparse.
> 
> I had to do some minor tweaks to the Blobs source code (mainly
> Text.Parse stuff, no big deal really).
> 
> I used wxGTK 2.6.4, --with-opengl and --disable-sharing (otherwise I got
> link errors when linking Blobs).
> 
> However I'm using GHC 6.8.2 on Fedora 8. BTW what do you think is the
> best distro for doing Haskell development?
> 
> Now I just switched from Windows to Linux, so this is all very very new
> to me. However I do like the Linux way of settings things up, so I'm
> planning to dig a bit deeper in the Linux world. Not easy because I know
> a lot about Windows development, so giving that up is hard.
> 
> I'll take a look at the website you mentioned.
> 
> The fact to you have it running gives me confidance it is possible :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:51 +0000, Miguel Vilaça wrote:
> > Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> > > I'm trying to build http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/Blobs using GHC
> > > 6.8.2. It looks like a good Haskell program to learn from.
> > >
> > > So far I managed to modify the source code so it makes use of the new
> > > HaXML libraries, and after a lot of hacking I could build and link to
> > > wxHaskell, but my app crashes (I do get a window however, woohoo)
> > >
> > > Maybe someone else managed already?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
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> > Hi Peter,
> > I have Blobs compiling and running in my machine.
> > Its an Kubuntu Gutsy with GHC 6.6.1 and HaXml 1.19.SOMETHING (I'm using
> > a repository version but not yet the current one)
> > This implies some minor changes that I've as local patches, that I can
> > send to you as soon as I find how to get a file per patch from the
> > repository.
> > 
> > The big issue is always to be able to get wxHaskell compiled and working
> > properly.
> > I'm currently using a recent (1 or 2 weeks old) version of wxHaskell
> > from its official repository  (darcs get
> > http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell) and wxGTK 2.6.3
> > 
> > You can find more information in INblobs (INblobs is done on top of
> > Bblobs) webpage : http://haskell.di.uminho.pt/jmvilaca/INblobs/
> > or in the wxHaskell mailing list wxhaskell-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > What versions of wxWidgets are you using and in which platform?
> > 
> > best
> > Miguel Vilaca
> > 
> 
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