TS does not compile under Windows 7

[MikolajKonarski]

Compiler complains that widgetSetCanFocus is out of scope.
Compiles OK with the occurence of widgetSetCanFocus removed.

Versions: gtk2hs is 0.12.2, TS is 0.2.1 and GTK is 2.24.8.

The problem may be due to conditional compilation in gtk2hs,
which for that particular GTK version may switch off the widgetSetCanFocus. Not verified in the code.

[MikolajKonarski]

Haskell Platform is 2011.4.0.0. See the full report by Kirill Kolodyazhniy on parallel-haskell.

[duncan]

Odd

#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,18,0)
  widgetGetCanFocus,
  widgetSetCanFocus,
  widgetGetAllocation,
#endif

But I've also seen other reports of this from windows users. We should confirm what GTK version gtk2hs was really built against.

[MikolajKonarski]

May be related:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.gtk2hs/2952

[MikolajKonarski]

False alarm. The bug above was caused by manually faked pkg-config.

[bartoszw]

Replying to duncan:

Odd

{{{
#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,18,0)
widgetGetCanFocus,
widgetSetCanFocus,
widgetGetAllocation,
#endif
}}}

But I've also seen other reports of this from windows users. We should confirm what GTK version gtk2hs was really built against.

I've got problem with having widgetGetCanFocus and widgetSetCanFocus available with GTK version 2.18. I've got version 2.16 which contains already CAN_FOCUS and migration gtk2hs from 0.11.1 to 0.12.2 caused some compiling problems. I've solved it temporary for myself by moving these 2 functions under #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,16,0).
Is there any good reason for having them only from version 2.18?
If not, would it be possible to fix it? I can contribute here if this is an issue.
I'm on Linux Mandriva 2009 (relatively old therefore GTK is old too).

[duncan]

So I don't think this is really a problem we need to solve. It's true that if we fixed the gtk binding, we could make it work ok for users of Gtk+2.16, but Gtk+ 2.16 is really ancient these days, even for windows. The latest Gtk+ Win32 bundle on the Gtk+ download page is 2.24.

My suggestion is we just tell users to use a more recent gtk version.