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Taymon
Taymon

Reputation: 25666

Build errors when installing wxHaskell on Linux

I'm on Ubuntu 13.10 and trying to install wxHaskell. I installed wxWidgets 2.9 from the http://repos.codelite.org/wx3.0/ubuntu/ repository.

The basic cabal install wx gets me 

src/cpp/eljgrid.cpp:61:65: error: no matching function for call to ‘wxGridCellEditor::PaintBackground(wxRect, wxGridCellAttr*)’
  self->PaintBackground(wxRect(x, y, w, h), (wxGridCellAttr*)attr);
                                                                 ^
[...]
wxcore-0.90.0.3 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install.

Downloading from the GitHub repository and building from source gets me:

setup: can't find source for Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClassInfo in src/haskell,
dist/build/autogen
Failed to install wxcore-0.90.1.0
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wxcore-0.90.1.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring wx-0.90.1.0...
cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
wxcore >=0.90.1.0
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
trying: wx-0.90.1.0
trying: wx-0.90.1.0:+splitbase
rejecting: wxcore-0.90.0.3, 0.90.0.1, 0.90, 0.13.2.3, 0.13.2.1, 0.13.2,
0.12.1.7, 0.12.1.6, 0.12.1.5, 0.12.1.4, 0.12.1.3, 0.12.1.2, 0.12.1.1,
0.11.1.2, 0.11.1.1, 0.11.1.0, 0.11.0, 0.10.13.0, 0.10.13, 0.10.12, 0.10.11,
0.10.10, 0.10.9, 0.10.8, 0.10.7, 0.10.6, 0.10.5, 0.10.4, 0.10.3, 0.10.2,
0.10.1 (conflict: wx-0.90.1.0:splitbase => wxcore>=0.90.1.0)

What's going on with this and what's required to fix it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 519

Answers (2)

Stéphane Laurent
Stéphane Laurent

Reputation: 84529

I know this is an old post but it took me a certain time to install wxHaskell (on Linux), therefore it is worth sharing. The instructions given at https://wiki.haskell.org/WxHaskell/Linux seriously need to be refreshed.

First:

sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libwxgtk-media3.0-dev

Then (after cabal sandbox init if you use sandboxes):

cabal install wxdirect
cabal install wxc
cabal install wxcore
cabal install wx

Upvotes: 0

Thomas M. DuBuisson
Thomas M. DuBuisson

Reputation: 64740

It sounds like you have cloned the github copy of wxHaskell:

git clone https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell

Then you tried to install wxHaskell without first installing any of its build dependencies. Notice your error message:

cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
wxcore >=0.90.1.0

That version of wxcore isn't on hackage (yet), but it is in the repo you JUST cloned (see https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell/blob/master/wxcore/wxcore.cabal). So first go to the wxcore directory and cabal install that library.

EDIT: Notice the dependency tree goes deeper. You'll need to install several wx* packages first.

Upvotes: 1

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