Question

is there a GUI package that is still up-to-date?

I tried installing both wxHaskell and gtk2hs today and both fail on dependencies I just cannot solve (wxHaskell cannot find some wxWidget libs and while trying the glade tutorial gtk2hs fails on a missing pkg-config libglade2-0 I installed too).

I guess it’s just some problem with me not understanding the linux/cabal/package install things good enough but is there a up-to-date tutorial how to get started (install) some GUI lib for Haskell somewhere around?

Here are the errors:

carsten@Carsten-VirtualBox:~$ cabal install glade
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 2] Compiling SetupWrapper     ( /tmp/glade-0.12.1-12934/glade-0.12.1/SetupWrapper.hs, /tmp/glade-0.12.1-12934/glade-0.12.1/dist/setup/SetupWrapper.o )
[2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( /tmp/glade-0.12.1-12934/glade-0.12.1/Setup.hs, /tmp/glade-0.12.1-12934/glade-0.12.1/dist/setup/Main.o )
Linking /tmp/glade-0.12.1-12934/glade-0.12.1/dist/setup/setup ...
[1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      ( Gtk2HsSetup.hs, dist/setup-wrapper/Gtk2HsSetup.o )
[2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( SetupMain.hs, dist/setup-wrapper/Main.o )
Linking dist/setup-wrapper/setup ...
Configuring glade-0.12.1...
setup: The pkg-config package libglade-2.0 version >=2.0.0 is required but it
could not be found.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
glade-0.12.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

and

carsten@Carsten-VirtualBox:~$ cabal install wxc
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.4-13078/wxc-0.90.0.4/Setup.hs, /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.4-13078/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/Main.o )
Linking /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.4-13078/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/setup ...
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.4...

  Warning: No config found to match: /usr/bin/wx-config --version=2.9 --version-full
           in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wx/config
  If you require this configuration, please install the desired
  library build.  If this is part of an automated configuration
  test and no other errors occur, you may safely ignore it.
  You may use wx-config --list to see all configs available in
  the default prefix.

setup: failed
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wxc-0.90.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

This is really frustrating me – maybe someone can help me here – thank you!

Answer 1

I am running 12.04 and everything works fine for me.
Are you sure you have libglade2-dev installed ? That should fix it.
Coming from ArchLinux i had the same problem at first when i didn’t know there were separate dev libraries, i don’t remember having to do this in arch.