Hi Alex, just download the bundle and everything works? On Windows? That's a fairy tail and not reality. At least in my experience.
An Installer on Windows is still needed if you want to make it possible for 'ordinary' developers (like me) to target Windows! And from my experience with Leksah, we have a lot of Downloads for the Windows installer (about 10000 for our 0.8 prerelease already). So we have Windows developers interested in Haskell, and maybe they want to write some GUI Apps? And not to forget, I myself need a Windows installer to continue support for Leksah on Windows. The Windows installer Hamish provides just installs Leksah, and is not good for developing gtk2hs apps. Jürgen Am Mittwoch, den 05.05.2010, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Axel Simon: > 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
