[Haskell-cafe] Desktop GUI in Haskell

[Ivan Perez]

Hi A. Mc.,

Just in case it helps:

Its perfectly fine to create a Haskell windows desktop application in Gtk.
I've done it, and I deployed commercial desktop applications in the past
(AFAIK, they were in production for over a decade without issues and they
may still be used). Gtk has a mailing list that, as of last year, was still
active: gtk2hs-users at lists.sourceforge.net. It's *very* low traffic.

If installing or getting gtk to work gives you headaches, you may want to
consider Wx. I had some issues last time I tried wx on mac (IIRC 2020), but
those issues may no longer be there.

If you have questions, feel free to drop me a line. I may not be able to
spend time debugging low-level details, but I may be able to help if I hit
the same roadblock.

Cheers

Ivan

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 20:08, Branimir Maksimovic <
branimir.maksimovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't go that route on Windows. I would make my winapi lib
> wrapper,\and make
>
> standard Windows GUI. Perhaps someone did that already.
>
> Greets, Branimir.
> On 28.2.21. 1:41 пре подне, A. Mc. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to use GTK+3 to create a Desktop, but I am having a problem
> installing all of the dependencies.  I keep getting the following error:
> GUI cabal: version >=0.9.0 of pkg-config is required
> I am using Cygwin on a Windows 10 operating system. What is
> needed to fix this? Is this the best way to do a
> desktop GUI in Haskell?
> Thanks in advance and thank you for your time.
>
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