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@@ -40,21 +40,35 @@ Building: Get the dependencies - Firstly, you'll need the C X11 library headers. On many platforms, - these come pre-installed. For others, such as Debian, you can get - them from your package manager: + You first need a Haskell compiler. Your distribution's package + system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the + system we use, so install that. If your distro doesn't provide a + binary, you can find them here: + + http://haskell.org/ghc + + For example, in Debian you would install GHC with: + + apt-get install ghc6 + + Since you're building an X application, you'll need the C X11 + library headers. On many platforms, these come pre-installed. For + others, such as Debian, you can get them from your package manager: apt-get install libx11-dev - It is likely that you already have some of these dependencies. To check - whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list some_package_name' + Finally, you need the Haskell libraries xmonad depends on. Since + you've a working GHC installation now, most of these will be + provided. To check whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list + some_package_name'. You will need the following packages: mtl http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mtl-1.0 unix http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix-2.0 X11 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.2.3 X11-extras: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-extras-0.4 -And then build with Cabal: +And then build xmonad with Cabal as follows (the same goes for the other +Haskell libraries): runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME runhaskell Setup.lhs build |