Hi there,
sorry about the delay in replying, but
http://galois.com/~sof/hdirect-0.19-src.tar.gz
contains a source snapshot that works with 5.04.
Building it isn't hard...if it turns out to be, please
let me know.
Re: HDirect vs HaskellScript's libraries -- the HDirect
COM support libraries covers the functionality of
the old HaskellScript ones (and more), but by default,
no object model-specific modules are included with
HDirect (e.g., IE, Word, Excel etc.) They're easy
enough to either generate from type libraries or write
out by hand though.
--sigbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Moore"
Is there a version of HDirect available for GHC 5.04? Ideally a binary distribution, but if source is available with step-by-step instructions on building and installing it (I'm most definitely *not* an expert in such things!), then that would do as well.
My reason for wanting this is to be able to try driving COM components from Haskell, as described in the "Calling Hell From Heaven And Heaven
From Hell" document. I assume HDirect is the best way of doing this?
I looked through recent posts on the list, and couldn't see any information on this...
Thanks for any help, Paul Moore.
PS A long while back, I played with HaskellScript. Looking at the site, it hasn't been updated in a long while. Is HaskellScript dead, and if so is there anything which covers the same functionality for GHC (particularly the COM libraries etc - I'm not that bothered about the WSH support). Or is that what HDirect covers?