[Haskell-cafe] Re: Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0!

[Andy Stewart]

<briand at aracnet.com> writes:

> Short version of this post:
>
> Looks like the intsall depends on alex and that dependencies doesn't
> appear to be handled, i.e. I had to install alex before proceeding.
>
> why do is it called gtk2hs if you are actually installing package
> gtk ;-)
Because before gtk2hs cabalized package release (gtk2hs-0.11.0), 
we put many gtk+ base package in *one* repository.

Currently, glib, gio, cairo, pango, gtk still in repository :
http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs

>
> Where's the demo directory ?!
Sorry, we forgot add demo in .cabal file when we released gtk2hs-0.11.0,
We will include all demos in gtk2hs-0.11.1

>
> Moral of the story: don't forget to install -dev version of the
> necessary libraries. For me that was libpango1.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev and
> libglib2.0-dev.
>
> The long version:
>
> I have a debian system and I expect the problems I found to be
> relatively common.  Hope this is useful.
>
> First I found that I needed package alex.
>
> then i was able to 
>
>   cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools
>
> however
>
>   cabal install gtk
>
> didn't work:
>
> Configuring glib-0.11.0...
> setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be
> found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> gio-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install.
> glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> gtk-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install.
> pango-0.11.0 depends on glib-0.11.0 which failed to install.
>
>   cabal install glib
>
> Configuring glib-0.11.0...
> setup: The pkg-config package glib-2.0 is required but it could not be
> found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> glib-0.11.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
> now it's not obvious to me at this point if it's referencing a cabal
> package glib-2.0 or the unix libs.  But I'm going to guess it's
> actually the unix libs.
>
> I do have the unix libs installed :
>
> ii  libglib2.0-0
> 2.24.1-1                       The GLib library of C routines
>
> However I remembered that annoying little thing that there is always
> those darn -dev versions of the lib that you need when you actually
> want to compile against libraries. So I installed it and got farther
> along, crashing on pango.
>
> Turns out it's the same problem.  So install libpango1.0-dev and
> continue...
>
> Stopped again on gtk+, aka gtk libgtk2.0-dev.  Installed it, and
> trudged on.
>
> I noticed that the install process stays at this point for a long
> time:
>
> Preprocessing library gtk-0.11.0...
>
> But it does eventually continue, and it even completes successfully !
>
> Strangely, at this point, I find that I don't know that I actually have
> gtk2hs installed.  I know that this sound kinda dumb, but I just did
> "cabal install gtk", right ?  I immediately tried "cabal install
> gtk2hs", which said no such library, and realized that gtk was it :-)
>
> So I'd like to run a demo to make sure things are installed properly.
>
> Running the demos.
> ------------------
>
> To get started, you can compile and run one of the programs that reside
> in the demo/ directory in the respective packages. For example:
>
> ~/gtk2hs/gtk/demo/hello:$ make
>
>
> But after the installation the demo directory is nowhere to be found.
> Do you need to pull it in with darcs ??
>
>
>  Brian
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:42:26 +0200
> Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
>
>> Andy Stewart schrieb:
>> > Hi all,
>> > 
>> > We plan to release bug fix version : gtk2hs-0.11.1
>> > 
>> > Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, we will fix it before
>> > release gtk2hs-0.11.1
>> 
>> I'm looking forward for this bug-fix release (since gtk2hs-0.11.0 did
>> not work for me).
>> 
>> Because I've almost missed this message I reply to
>> gtk2hs-users at lists.sourceforge.net, too.
>> 
>> Christian
>> 
>> > 
>> > We plan to add many new APIs in gtk2hs-0.12.0, 
>> > so gtk2hs-0.11.1 will be the last stable version with current APIs.
>> > 
>> > Thanks for your help!
>> > 
>> >   -- Andy
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