GUI (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] DLL on Windows)

[Thomas DuBuisson]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue
<jeremy.odonoghue at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're probably correct about the dependencies. I have never tried to
> compile wxHaskell against GHC 6.12.1
>
> I'm waiting for Haskell Platform to be released to make the required
> changes since (working primarily on Windows) I just don't have time to
> create a complete GHC 6.12 installation with most of the HP libraries
> (some of which are a pain to get working on Windows).

FYI, it also seems the current version of wxcore assumes something
that isn't true about Cabal (again, I use Cabal 1.8.0.2).  I just
tested with ghc-6.10.4 + Cabal 1.8.0.2 + cabal-install 0.8.0 and
received what is probably a well known complaint:

[tommd at Mavlo ~]$ cabal install wx
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
/tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.23133/wxcore-0.12.1.2/Setup.hs,
/tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.23133/wxcore-0.12.1.2/dist/setup/Main.o )

/tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.23133/wxcore-0.12.1.2/Setup.hs:15:57:
    Couldn't match expected type `GenericPackageDescription'
           against inferred type `Either
                                    GenericPackageDescription
PackageDescription'
      Expected type: (GenericPackageDescription, HookedBuildInfo)
      Inferred type: (Either
                        GenericPackageDescription PackageDescription,
                      HookedBuildInfo)
    In the `confHook' field of a record
    In the first argument of `defaultMainWithHooks', namely
        `simpleUserHooks {confHook = myConfHook}'

/tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.23133/wxcore-0.12.1.2/Setup.hs:51:37:
    Couldn't match expected type `GenericPackageDescription'
           against inferred type `Either
                                    GenericPackageDescription
PackageDescription'
    In the expression: pkg0
    In the second argument of `confHook', namely `(pkg0, pbi)'
    In a stmt of a 'do' expression:
        lbi <- confHook simpleUserHooks (pkg0, pbi) flags
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wx-0.12.1.2 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.2 which failed to install.
wxcore-0.12.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1