Adrian Hey ahey@iee.org writes:

*** ghc Newbie Alert ** I suppose the first question i should ask is will the current version (hdirect 0.17) work with ghc-5.00.2 or am I wasting my time?

I've found I have to put '-package lang' in the ghc options to get the installation to to work at all, but it stops eventually complaining about unrecognised flag -K2m (obsolete presumably). Is there a ghc-5.00.2 alternative? At this point I've given up because I don't really understand what I'm doing or what are appropriate settings for all those xyz_HC_OPTS in the makefiles or what else might need changing.

Any advice?

hi, the CVS repository version of HDirect is mostly(*) compatible with ghc-5.00.2, so I'd suggest giving it a go instead of 0.17. The repository hangs off the fptools/ one in fptools/hdirect. --sigbjorn (*) - ghc-5.00.2 give Int.sizeofInt{8,...} the type Int32; HDirect generated sources assume Word32 (as it should be). => you may need to tweak the generated code in a select few places to make ghc-5.00.2 happy.