"Sigbjorn Finne" writes:

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.

Thanks for the snapshot. I struggled at first until I realised that the build was supposed to be run under Cygwin... After that it went fine.

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.

Great. I'll look into that. Thanks a lot, Paul.

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 = []}

"Paul Moore" writes:

...

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

(make sure you remove HDirect.pkg first.)

Hm. This actually puts Cygwin-format pathnames in HDirect.pkg (/cygdrive/c/...) which (the Windows native) GHC doesn't recognise.

.... You normally just sidestep that bash 'pwd' bug/idiosyncracy by issuing a "cd" command of the form "cd c:/your/hdirect/directory" to have it switch over to reporting paths in non-cygdrive form (== likeable to GHC and other mingw apps.) --sigbjorn