Warnings/Restrictions

• HaXml >= 1.17 only compiles with GHC >= 6.6
• to compile HaXml or INblobs using Cabal (i.e. runhaskell Setup.hs OPTION) you need at least Cabal 1.1.4 (with GHC >= 6.4.2 this requirement is automatically satisfied)
• you can obtain the latest version of HaXml, wxHaskell or INblobs picking it up from the respective repositories with darcs get URL_TO_REPOSITORY. Alternatively download tarball releases.
• for wxHaskell is recommended to download the repository version; actual package versions are really out of date.
• This gives the usual equivalences between Cabal commands and typical make.

  without Cabal	with Cabal
  ./configure	runhaskell Setup.hs configure
  make	runhaskell Setup.hs build
  make install	runhaskell Setup.hs install
  make doc	runhaskell Setup.hs haddock

Windows

1. Download GHC 6.4
2. Download HaXml 1.19
   Install with HaXml-1.19\Build.bat editing this file as needed.
3. Download wxHaskell 0.9.4
   Install with wxhaskell-0.9.4\bin\wxhaskell-register.bat
4. Download INblobs
   Compile with INblobs\startghc.bat

MacOsX

1. Install GHC 6.4 (ensure that is 6.4 and not 6.4.X) (download here)
2. Install wxHaskell for Mac (download here)
3. Download HaXml 1.19
   ./configure
make
make install
4. Download INblobs
   Edit Makefile
make

Linux

Ubuntu Feisty

1. Ensure the universe repository of Ubuntu is enabled:
   sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
   and uncomment the universe repository lines:
   # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe
   Then
   sudo apt-get update
2. install GHC and darcs
   sudo apt-get install ghc6
sudo apt-get install darcs
3. install HaXml
   darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/polyparse
cd polyparse
runhaskell Setup.hs configure
runhaskell Setup.hs build
sudo runhaskell Setup.hs install
cd ..

darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/HaXml
cd HaXml
runhaskell Setup.hs configure
runhaskell Setup.hs build (this operation take some time)
   sudo runhaskell Setup.hs install
cd ..
4. install WxWidgets 2.6
   sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.6-dev
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install g++
5. install wxHaskell
   sudo apt-get install libghc6-time-dev
darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell
cd wxhaskell
chmod u+x configure
./configure --with-opengl
make
sudo make install
make wx
sudo make wx-install
cd ..
6. compile INblobs
   darcs get http://haskell.di.uminho.pt/jmvilaca/INblobs
cd INblobs
runhaskell Setup.hs configure
runhaskell Setup.hs build (this operation take some time)
7. run INblobs
   ./dist/build/INblobs/INblobs
   On this moment you should see the application.
8. Go to How To Use INblobs

   Any distribution

   1. You need GHC 6.6 at least. There are binaries to several platforms at GHC web page. Install it and put it available in path.
   2. Download the necessary things
      • HaXml 1.19
      • wxHaskell 0.9.4-1
      • wxWidgets 2.6.2
      • INblobs
   3. Supposing you are in the folder with all the downloaded files, unpack the files:
      
   4. Install HaXml
      1. ./configure
make
      2. Then as root run
         make install
      3. run ghci -package HaXml to test.
   5. Install wxGTK
      1. create a new directory for build, inside the wxGTK directory
      2. run
         ../configure --disable-shared --with-opengl --enable-sound --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --disable-unicode
make
      3. Then as root run
         make install
      4. Test wxGTK installation
         • run wx-config --version
   6. Install wxHaskell
      1. run ./configure --help to see if everything is correct
      2. ./configure --with-opengl
make
      3. Then as root run
         make install
make doc
      4. Test it running ghci -package wx
   7. compile INblobs
      make
      
   8. Finally run INblobs
      • run ./INblobs

   If you prefer the whole bundle of commands...
   tar xzvf HaXml-1.19.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf wxGTK-2.6.2.tar.gz
unzip wxhaskell-src-0.9.4-1.zip
tar xzvf INblobs.tar.gz
cd HaXml-1.19.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
cd wxGTK-2.6.2 mkdir mybuild
cd mybuild
../configure --disable-shared --with-opengl --enable-sound --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --disable-unicode
make
sudo make install
cd ../..
wx-config --version
cd wxhaskell-0.9.4
./configure --help
./configure --with-opengl
make
sudo make install
sudo make doc
ghci -package wx
cd ..
cd INblobs
make
./INblobs
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