Hi Jürgen, On 05.05.2010, at 17:33, Jürgen Nicklisch-Franken wrote:
> Hi, > that's good news that gtk2hs finally will have a release compatible > with 6.12. > I've already pointed out that it would be essential to have it work > with 6.12.2 as well. > Yes, although this could be a ghc problem (or something rather difficult to solve in Gtk2Hs). > But what I want to ask is, if a MS Windows installer will be part of > the release? > I have tried to install gtk2hs from repo on a Windows machine, and > failed miserably. > The difficulties for such an installer are more how to get gtk > installed. > So the hurdles of installation on Windows without an installer, seem > to me > so high, that gtk2hs can't really claim to support Windows without > an installer! Hm, that's disappointing to hear. One aim with the cabal release is certainly to lower the maintenance by getting rid of the installer. Did you read the message by Malcolm Wallace: * I have the C libs for gtk+-2.20, downloaded from www.gtk.org: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.20/gtk+-bundle_2.20 .0-20100406_win32.zip * It was necessary for me to add ghc-6.12.1/mingw/bin to my PATH, so that the "Setup build" step can use the cpp.exe C preprocessor. ...and then apparently everything builds. Maybe we can do something about using a different cpp (or being clever about finding cpp on Windows). > As well it is not nice if developers targeting as well Windows, will > have to > wait an unspecified time. > > Any idea on this? With the cabal packages we hoped to just have that: cabal packages. The question of shipping binary applications is a different one and consists of copying all .DLLs that are needed. Cheers, Axel > Jürgen > > > >> Hi Jens, >> >> the repo works for me at the mo. I've applied and pushed your patch, >> thanks. >> >> The only thing that stops us from releasing is >> >> - gstreamer needs modifications to Setup.hs since it has two type >> hierarchies (a few hours) >> - the bugs recently found in the Clipboard functions >> - someone to report that building on Windows now works properly (I >> might nudge Malcom Wallace for that) >> >> I'm away this weekend so it might take another two weeks before we're >> ready. Ideally, we would also build everything against the different >> version of Gtk+ to shake out wrong or missing #ifdefs. >> >> Cheers, >> Axel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
