{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/25","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/25/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/25/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/25/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fpco/minghc/issues/25","id":55202145,"number":25,"title":"Optional packages for MinGHC?","user":{"login":"Kludgy","id":4297909,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4297909?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy","html_url":"https://github.com/Kludgy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-01-22T20:08:32Z","updated_at":"2015-01-22T21:04:24Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Thanks for this installer. Really makes my life on Windows a lot more pleasant.\r\n\r\nJust wondering if owner/users would be interested PRs for tricky package installs for say, GTK2/3 and SDL? Seem to be common sore points.\r\n\r\nCheers.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/comments/71098320","html_url":"https://github.com/fpco/minghc/issues/25#issuecomment-71098320","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fpco/minghc/issues/25","id":71098320,"user":{"login":"Kludgy","id":4297909,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4297909?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy","html_url":"https://github.com/Kludgy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Kludgy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-22T21:04:24Z","updated_at":"2015-01-22T21:04:24Z","body":"Yea GTK is a pretty hefty dependency.\r\n\r\nBut off the top of my head, building on top of MinGHC, a `cabal install gtk2hs` would have to:\r\n* Obtain/move GTK dev files somewhere visible to the environment.\r\n* Sensibly extend PATH to the `bin` deps. (`pkg-config.exe` should come along with this.)\r\n* Extend the PKG_CONFIG_PATH.\r\n* Rebuild `alex` and `happy` for additional artifacts that `gtk2hs-install` can find. (Can we just include these with MinGHC perhaps, or are the artifacts machine dependent? Haven't looked into this yet.)\r\n"}}