WXWidgets and WxHaskell on Windows, check!

Despite my earlier problems, I finally managed to install WXWidgets and WxHaskell on my Windows machine. Pfiu! I started again from scratch, and things went much better when I installed, as recommended, MinGW and MSYS in different folders. When I need to compile stuff, I only put MinGW in my path, and when I need Unixy tools like make I add MSYS. Of course MinGW has its own version of make, mingw32-make, that works when MSYS make doesn't...

So I installed MinGW in c:\dev\MinGW and:

set PATH=c:\dev\MinGW\bin;c:\dev\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5;%PATH%

Then I modified the WxWidgets config.gcc file to set SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 MONOLITHIC=1.

And then:

mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=debug

worked!

Setting new environment variables (wxWidgets is installed in c:\ui):

set WXWIN=c:\ui\wxWidgets-2.8.10
set WXCFG=gcc_dll\mswud

Then I could install then wxdirect, wxcore and wx packages using a few more flags than what a default cabal install would do, for example:

runhaskell Setup configure --extra-lib-dirs=c:\dev\MinGW\lib --extra-include-dirs=c:\dev\MinGW\include --extra-include-dirs=c:\dev\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.5\mingw32 --extra-include-dirs=c:\ui\wxWidgets-2.8.10\include --extra-include-dirs=c:\dev\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.5

And it install, and works!