A while ago (in connection with HGL problems, some of which were traced to incorrect greencard output), I asked here:
Alternatively, is anyone out there using ghc's win32 binding?
As noone has responded so far, I have to conclude that this is quite an infrequently used package.. - noone using ghc + win32 API? - noone using ghc + hgl on windows? Alastair provided updated greencard outputs for win32, but neither he nor I tend to build ghc from source on our windows machines, and I found it non-obvious how to build hslibs/win32 from cvs in isolation (without building most everything else), so I asked here:
I still have to figure out how to make hslibs/win32 in isolation, so I won't be able to test & confirm whether this solves all the HGL/GHC/Win32 problems for a while (e.g., there was the problem of polygon creation running out of resources, see Friday's email; that could easily be related to the same ffi problem, but it would be good to check) - anyone else in a better position for testing?
Again, no response, so I have to conclude that either noone is
building ghc from cvs on windows here, or none of those who do
have any interest in HGL.. no users, no testers:-(
We suspect that Alastairs fixes may still leave some issues with
concurrency / potentially blocking threads / ffi (at least in GHC's
default configuration on windows), but we'd like to see just how far
the improvements go, as the next stable release of GHC is imminent.
* Could anyone with cvs/fptools/makefile-expertise lend me a hand
* if I try again to build only hslibs/win32 from cvs? Or is it
* completely unreasonable to expect this to work?
The fresh greencard output seems to depend on parts of the ffi
syntax that weren't supported in ghc-5.02.2, so I'd have to try with
ghc-5.03.20020208 (the latest windows installer snapshot).
Here's what I've got now, re-configured for the new ghc version:
- checked out cvs sources
- cd fptools; autoconf; configure --with-ghc=ghc-5.03....
- create mk/build.mk:
GHC_INPLACE = $(GHC)
GHC_PKG_INPLACE = echo 'GHC_PKG_INPLACE'
- cd hslibs/win32
$ make
gcc -E -undef -traditional -I../../ghc/includes -x c win32.conf.in \
| sed 's/^#.*$//g' >win32.conf.inplace
win32.conf.in:1: config.h: No such file or directory
gcc -E -undef -traditional -I../../ghc/includes -DINSTALLING -x c win32.conf.in \
| sed 's/^#.*$//g' >win32.conf.installed
win32.conf.in:1: config.h: No such file or directory
../../ghc/utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace --update-package