
On Friday 21 September 2007 20:19, Ronald Guida wrote:
John Wicket wrote:
yea, that is probably what I need. Can you post in a step-by-step way.
Here is a set of instructions for what I had to do to get FreeGLUT working with GHCi [...].
Oh dear, a long a sad story... :-(
[...] Although I just don't understand why freeglut, the Haskell GLUT library, and GHCi won't work together in the first place.
That statement is not correct, they *do* work together. The problem you are experiencing is that the GLUT version used to build the GHC installer/binary distro is obviously not freeglut, but "classic" GLUT. As long as you only use "classic" GLUT features, this is OK. Things get really hairy when you want to use freeglut-only features and still have a GHC installer/binary distro which is guaranteed to run with "classic" GLUT as well (with restricted features in the latter case, of course). To do this properly, the GLUT package has to resolve freeglut-only API entries dynamically, but glutGetProcAddress is not contained in lots of GLUT DLLs out in the wild (it's in GLUT API version 5 plus freeglut). This is really a pity and a big design flaw in GLUT IMHO, but there is not much one can do about that.The only thing left is to load the GLUT/freeglut dynamic library, well, "dynamically" and resolve the freeglut API entries by hand. Doing this is not hard, but a little bit tricky to get right portably: Use dlopen/dlsym on most *nices, LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress on Windoze, something else on Mac OS, take care of possible leading underscores, etc. etc. I really wanted to avoid doing this, but it looks like there is no way around it. Given the current time frame for the GHC 6.8.1 release, I don't think that it is feasible to get this into that release, because I would need feedback from lots of platforms to be sure things work.
[...] darcs-1.0.9 http://darcs.net/darcs-1.0.9.tar.gz [...]
There are darcs binaries for Windows, so there is no need to build it and the libraries it needs: http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries#head-c7910dd98302946c671cf6... Furthermore, darcs itself is not needed for what you want to do.
[...] Freeglut-2.4.0 http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/index.php#download [...]
The freeglut project currently doesn't provide prebuilt binaries, so this is hardly the GLUT package's fault. ;-) Furthermore, the official way to build the project on Windows is via MSVC, and there are projects files for this. Building a DLL via MinGW/MSYS would be nice, too, so perhaps you could post your patches in the freeglut-developer mailing list. I think that there will be a new freeglut release soon, perhaps I can push people to make at least a simple ZIP file with the binaries for Windows available on the project pages.
GLUT-2.1.1 You need to use darcs to download GLUT-2.1.1. [...] Locate the line start starts with "build-depends:" and remove the dependencies "array" and "containers"
Now you enter the great world of Cabal versionits and the Big Library Splitup (tm). ;-) If you want to use a bleeding edge version of GLUT, you need a bleeding edge version of GHC and the libraries coming with it. A released version is available via hackage.haskell.org.
[...] 6. Modify "GLUT-2.1.1/Graphics/UI/GLUT/Extensions.hs" as follows:
Look at the last two lines:
foreign import ccall unsafe "hs_GLUT_getProcAddress" hs_GLUT_getProcAddress
:: CString -> IO (FunPtr a)
Change "hs_GLUT_getProcAddress" to "glutGetProcAddress"
7. Modify "GLUT-2.1.1/cbits/HsGLUT.c" as follows:
Look for "void* hs_GLUT_getProcAddress(char *procName)" and remove the whole function.
Huh? If you *really* compile against the freeglut header, these steps are unnecessary. What is the reason for this change?
{...] 11. In GHC's directory, there is a file named "package.conf". This file contains one extremely long line. You need to find an editor that will let you insert some text into this line without introducing any line breaks. Emacs can do this.
You need to locate the text << pkgName = "GLUT" >> and then you need to locate << hsLibraries = ["HSGLUT-2.1.1"] >> to the right of there. The very next thing to the right of "hsLibraries" should be << extraLibraries = [] >>. You need to change it to << extraLibraries = ["freeglut"] >>.
This is unnecessary if you install the freeglut DLL correctly. What is the output of "ghc-pkg describe GLUT" before this modification?
13. If you want to /compile/ with GHCi, then you'll need to copy the freeglut.dll file into the same directory as your newly-compiled program.exe file. I haven't tried static linking yet; that would require recompiling freeglut as a static library instead of a DLL.
The "traditional" way is to put the DLL as "glut32.dll" into your WINDOWS/system32, just next to opengl32.dll. :-P I don't know what the Vista-approved way of doing this is, and probably the freeglut project needs an installer. Any volunteers? Cheers, S.