Thursday 28 January 2010

Installation of gtk, gtk2hs, glade and leksah on windows XP

Step 1: Intall ghc
Download ghc 6.10.3 and install it at default destination.

Step 2: Install cabal
Download cabal for windows and install. This didn't work for me so alternately I used the tar file;
pathtofile\ghc --make Setup.hs
runghc Setup configure
runghc Setup build
runghc Setup install
cabal update

Step 3: Install gtk
Download gtk for windows from and install at the default location.

Step 4: Install gtk2hs
Download gtk2hs-0.10.1-win32-installer and download at default location.

Note: Glade is now in the package list.
on prompt write "ghc-pkg list" to see the installed packages

Step 5: Glade Editor
  • Download glade3
  • untar the folder at any location
  • in the bin folder you will find the glade-3 executable file
Step 6: Leksah
Method I: cabal install leksah

Mathod II: Download the Leksah-0.6.1.0.exe and install at default location.

Method III:
  • Download the binary source tar from hackage
  • untar and and go to the path and wrtie on cmd prompt
pathtofolder\cabal install
This will give error : cannot find -lgtksourceview-2.0

Solution is given in the Leksah FAQ#12,
pathtofolder\cabal install

3 comments:

  1. installing cabal:
    i downloaded the cabal 1.6.0.2 tar file and unpacked it. then i downloaded the cabal.exe and put it in the same folder. cd to this folder and run 'cabal.exe install' - this did all the necessary steps.

    afterwards - do not forget to

    cabal update

    and

    cabal install cabal
    (to get the newest version 1.8.0.2)

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  2. when i installed gtk2hs from the downloaded exe it complained that it could not find ghc (and requested 6.10.3 - i had 6.10.4).
    i let it run nevertheless and then did, what the specific instruction in the unpacked files said:

    Then add the bin folder to your PATH. Make sure you have no other
    versions of GTK+ in PATH. Run:
    pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0
    and verify that it prints out something reasonable. Run:
    gtk-demo
    and verify that it works.

    Note: after you added the path (right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced -> environment variables (at the bottom). copy/paste the path from the file browser).
    afterwards: open a new terminal (the env variables are read in only when you open the terminal!)

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  3. the above described trick did not work. you need 6.10.3 (and must it now get from one of the 'old versions' pages on haskell.org
    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.3/ghc-6.10.3-i386-windows.exe
    )

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