On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 23:32 -0500, Paul L wrote:
GLFW is a Haskell module for GLFW OpenGL framework. It provides an alternative to GLUT for OpenGL based Haskell programs.
The current 0.3 version is for download from hackageDB at: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/GLFW-0.3
Well done on getting another release out. It's available in the Gentoo's Haskell overlay already :-)
Same as the previous 0.2 version it requires Cabal 1.2 or later for installation (which comes as default in GHC 6.8 or later). The installation is now conforming to the standard Cabal steps.
New addition is the Haddock documentation for all interface functions. There is also a sample program to demonstrate its usage on the Haskell wiki site for GLFW: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GLFW
Any feedbacks is welcome! I've only tested it on a limited number of platforms + GHC combinations, so if you have installation issue, please let me know. Thank you!
You bundle all the GLFW source code. Some systems have the C library already available as a dynamic library. For gentoo for example we would prefer to use the existing glfw package than statically linking in another copy. This would be a good application of configurations, something like: flag system-glfw description: Use the the system GLFW C library. Otherwise use the bundled copy. default: False Library ... if flag(system-glfw) extra-libraries: glfw else ... Duncan