[Haskell-cafe] Re: gd on Win32

[Christopher Done]

Hi Kevin,

You probably have to install the mingw versions of these libraries.
Should be trivial to do with mingw's installation manager. Or was that
cygwin? The one with the package manager. I haven't used Windows for a
while, apologies.

On 21 July 2010 09:51, Kevin Jardine <kevinjardine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to install this module on Windows?
>
> I just ran
>
> cabal install gd
>
> and got the rather intimidating response:
>
> Missing C libraries: gd, png, z, jpeg, fontconfig, freetype, expat
>
> I actually have some of these libraries installed (eg. expat) but not
> most.
>
> I'm using MinGW.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> On Jul 3, 12:27 am, Christopher Done <chrisd... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> OK, here's the cleaned up repo. ready for action:
>>
>> http://github.com/chrisdone/gd
>>
>> Uploaded to Hackage with me as maintainer:http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gd
>>
>> On 2 July 2010 21:34, Christopher Done <chrisd... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 2 July 2010 20:29, Matthew Gruen <wikigraceno... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I was wondering the same thing about submitting patches to expose more
>> >> of the image functionality, including getting some functions to return
>> >> Either instead of failing with a runtime error. Let me know when you
>> >> get it set up.
>>
>> > That sounds like a good idea. I've setup a repo, I've merged in the
>> > latest work I did on it, and I've just updated it to be latest
>> > Prelude/base and to comply with -Wall. I'm just going to make it
>> > consistent with tibbe's style guide[1] before we start patching it for
>> > feature updates, so that we're singing from the same hymn sheet and
>> > then I'll let you you here. The Github repo is here:
>>
>> >http://github.com/chrisdone/gd
>>
>> > What's your Github username? I will add you as a project admin so that
>> > you can push to it directly.
>>
>> > [1]:http://github.com/tibbe/haskell-style-guide/blob/master/haskell-style.md
>>
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