Run haskell gloss GUI using cabal

Question

I am new to haskell and I want to learn how to create GUIs using the haskell platform. I found this tic tac toe example but I can't seem to figure it out how to run it.

https://github.com/DevJac/gloss-tic-tac-toe

I runned Setup.hs, it compiled but nothing happend. Tried cabal run and this is the output:

Package has never been configured. Configuring with default flags. If this fails, please run configure manually. Resolving dependencies... Configuring gloss-tic-tac-toe-0.1.0.0... cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing: base ==4.7.*, gloss >=1.9.2.1 && <1.10

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Update:

Here's what I did to get it to compile:

1. First run cabal install gloss-examples

It will take a while as it will install a lot of dependencies. These dependencies are also needed for the tic-tac-toe program.

2. Then do this:

   git clone https://github.com/DevJac/gloss-tic-tac-toe cd gloss-tic-tac-toe

and change the build-depends stanza in the .cabal file to read:

  build-depends:       base       >= 4.7,
                       gloss      >= 1.9.2.1,
                       containers >= 0.5.5.1

Basically just remove all upper bounds.

3. Run cabal build

4. If the build succeeds, run the executable:

   ./dist/build/gloss-tic-tac-toe/gloss-tic-tac-toe