Re: HDirect for GHC 5.04

21 Aug 2002


      Thanks, fixed in the current sources. To make it
work for you, you need supply defns of libdir
and datadir when doing 'install-pkg', e.g.,

  foo$ make install-pkg libdir=`pwd` datadir=`pwd`

(make sure you remove HDirect.pkg first.)

This is all somewhat academic to you though, as you're
really just interested in the COM version of the libraries
in comlib/ (for which 'make install-pkg' does the right thing.)

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Moore" 
To: "Sigbjorn Finne" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 08:36
Subject: Re: HDirect for GHC 5.04
...
"Sigbjorn Finne"  writes:
...
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.
Spoke too soon. The build went fine, but when I tried installing the
packages, I got the following error:
bash-2.05$ cd lib
bash-2.05$ make install-pkg
Reading package info from stdin... done.
Expanding embedded variables...done.
`' doesn't exist or isn't a directory
Unable to install 'hdirect' package for GHC - perhaps GHC isn't installed.
Try running ghc-pkg utility "ghc-pkg -a < /HDirect.pkg"
when GHC is installed.
I have GHC installed (from the Windows installer). Running the ghc-pkg
command manually didn't help. (Nor did using "HDirect.pkg" rather than
"/HDirect.pkg" - isn't the initial slash wrong?)
I'm not sure where to go next - I don't understand ghc-pkg, so if
there's any information I can provide which might help, let me know.
Thanks,
Paul.
PS In case it helps, here's HDirect.pkg:
Package { name = "hdirect",
          import_dirs  = [""],
          source_dirs  = [],
          library_dirs = [""],
          hs_libraries = ["HShdirect"],
          extra_libraries = ["kernel32"],
          include_dirs = [""],
          c_includes = [],
          package_deps = ["base","lang"],
          extra_ghc_opts = [],
          extra_cc_opts = [],
          extra_ld_opts = []}