On Dec 5, 2009, at 20:16, M Xyz wrote: > > Andrew, > If you haven't posted this there, you might want to cc the gtk2hs > mailing list gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In a response a > developer said: > > "...Our export on the windows installer seems to be snowed under so > we don't have anybody to look into this at the moment..." > > I've been meaning to learn NSIS (I don't know if that's the > installer they use). Is this as easy as quoting the path and > changing the version number in the installer? I could give it a > shot with some help? >
We use InnoSetup which has a Pascal-like scripting language. You can simply try to build a windows installer for Gtk2Hs by running/ modifying the files in tools/win32 of the darcs repository of Gtk2Hs. Cheers, Axel. > --- On Sat, 12/5/09, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> > wrote: > > From: Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] HP + Gtk2hs? > To: haskell-c...@haskell.org > Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 1:55 PM > > M Xyz wrote: > > > > > > > > - Apart from HP providing GHC 6.10.4 while Gtk2hs currently > > requires 6.10.3, it appears that the Gtk2hs installer package > > doesn't like GHC being installed in a path with spaces. > Apparently > > Gtk2hs has a bug tracker. (I only just discovered this, so > perhaps > > it needs to be more prominent?) Somebody pointed out this bug 6 > > months ago. Somebody else posted a potential fix a month ago. > > There is no visible activity from the developers. (I emphasize > > "visible". Maybe they've seen this and they're working on it, > but > > there's no visible indication of activity.) > > > > Thank you so much for this post. I tried to install Gtk2hs > yesterday to play with > > its Cairo bindings and I hit the "Setup found what appears to be > a non-working installation of GHC" brickwall. I found a closed > ticket about this problem: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ > ticket/1117 > > I posted this issue on the Gtk2hs-devel mailing list and got a > response today: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php? > thread_name=EF0EE62B-259C-4F62-9BF2-65FA1F01949E% > 40di.ens.fr&forum_name=gtk2hs-devel > > > > I don't think I have the will to uninstall the Haskell Platform > and everything I've set up just to install in a path with no > spaces. :) > > > > > My information is from here: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1165 > > In case it makes any difference to you. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > haskell-c...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
