[Haskell-cafe] Trouble installing and using Chart/cairo on windows 7

[Tim Docker]

On 04/03/13 07:22, Arnaud Bailly wrote:
> Then I managed to install splot and timeplot. I then tried to use 
> Chart to draw a simple chart, following 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Chart/0.16/doc/html/Graphics-Rendering-Chart-Simple.html 
> and it hang forever with a CPU at 100%.

As the author of the Chart library, I'm sorry to say "I don't know". 
Chart is developed under linux, and I do occasional testing under osx, 
but I don't use windows at all. Chart is a pure haskell library sitting 
over cairo, so it is most likely a cairo problem rather than a chart 
one, but I realise this doesn't help you.

Do the examples that come with the haskell binding to cairo work for you?

Windows and gtk continues to be problematic for many users. I'd love to 
see an alternative backend for the chart library, but I would need a 
graphics API that installs easily under windows, osx and linux, and 
provides good access to fonts and font metrics. Any suggestions?


Tim