Whenever I have tried spinning up a GUI on Haskell, I have always met with disaster. I think only a native (not Virtual Machine) Linux installation is the only hope, and that still is tricky.
I have not had a problem on nixos on my VMware fusion box, or the same set up on my desktop. Nixos has nearly atomic package management so it is easy to set and deconstruct environment or try multiple solutions out in parallel in different profiles.
Frustrating.