[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hxournal-0.5.0.0 - A pen notetaking program written in haskell

[Edward Z. Yang]

When I attempt to build on Ubuntu, I get:

ezyang at javelin:~$ cabal install hxournal
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring hxournal-0.5.0.0...
Preprocessing library hxournal-0.5.0.0...
In file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkscreen.h:32:0,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:31,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from Device.hsc:3:
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:55:23: fatal error: gdkconfig.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
compiling dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.c failed (exit code 1)
command was: /usr/bin/gcc -c dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.c -o dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.o -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-style=both,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries,--as-needed -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=700 -Dlinux_BUILD_OS -Dlinux_HOST_OS -Di386_BUILD_ARCH -Di386_HOST_ARCH -Icsrc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/process-1.0.1.5/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/directory-1.1.0.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/old-time-1.0.0.6/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/unix-2.4.2.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/time-1.2.0.3/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/bytestring-0.9.1.10/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/base-4.3.1.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/include/
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
hxournal-0.5.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

This may be of interest:

ezyang at javelin:~$ locate gdkconfig.h
/home/ezyang/Dev/gtk+/gdk/gdkconfig.h.win32
/usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkconfig.h
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include/gdkconfig.h

Edward

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Mon Dec 12 20:10:19 -0500 2011:
> Very fancy! I am a big fan of Xournal, so I will have to take this for a spin.
> 
> Edward
> 
> Excerpts from Ian-Woo Kim's message of Mon Dec 12 06:56:09 -0500 2011:
> > Hi, everyone,
> > 
> > I am very pleased to announce a pen notetaking program: hxournal,
> > which is written entirely in haskell using gtk2hs.
> > 
> > I uploaded the package on hackage. This program accompanies with
> > two library packages, xournal-parser and xournal-render for parsing
> > and rendering xournal format file.
> > 
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxournal
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-parser
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-render
> > 
> > Installing hxournal should be very simple:
> > > cabal update
> > > cabal install hxournal
> > 
> > hxournal can be currently regarded as a clone of xournal, which is a
> > notetaking program developed in C. (See
> > http://xournal.sourceforge.net)
> > 
> > As xournal, hxournal can take wacom tablet X11 input in subpixel unit
> > so that it can result in very smooth notetaking experience.
> > 
> > Currently, basic pen operations and eraser operations, file open/save
> > operations, rectangular selection, cut/copy/paste operations have been
> > implemented. So the application is semi-usable. The file format is
> > the same as xournal but gunzipped. So to view/edit xoj files generated
> > from xournal, just gunzip the xoj files and read them in hxournal.
> > Gunzipped xoj files generated from hxournal are readable in xournal
> > program.
> > 
> > One NEW special feature of hxournal compared with xournal:
> > This program can make a split view (horizontal and vertical and
> > arbitrary combination of them) of the same document similarly to emacs
> > buffers and windows. Please try Horizontal/Vertical Split in View menu
> > of the program. This will be convenient when notetaking a long
> > document.
> > 
> > The git repository is located at https://www.github.com/wavewave/hxournal
> > The program web page and development web/wiki pages will be announced
> > soon (it will be linked from package webpage on hackage anyway) and
> > the detailed manual will be presented there.
> > 
> > Thank you for your interest.
> > Enjoy haskell notetaking!
> > 
> > Ian-Woo Kim
> >