Re: [Haskell-cafe] glut installation using cabal failed

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:44:44 +0200, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 01:53 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:25:52 +0200, Raja Koduru wrote:

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hi,

I am a beginner to haskell.

I am trying to install glut using "cabal install glut" Pasting here a tail of the output

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checking for GLUT/glut.h... no configure: error: no GLUT header found, so this package cannot be built See `config.log' for more details.

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But I do have "glut.h" in my "D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw\GL".

Define the environment variable: C_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw (you can add more directories, separate them by ';') To let the linker find the libraries, define LIBRARY_PATH.

Hmm, that is annoying.

I've filed a tracker bug here: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/11

and also noted the issue here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/458#comment:2

Duncan

I am not absolutely sure, that you need to set these environment vars in this case, but I needed it for most packages with headers and external libs; this is what Raja wrote to me:

Thank you. Actually I have already set C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable with the right set of directories. Even after that error trace was occurring. I was suggested that I launch cabal from msys instead of launching via window's cmd.exe. That worked. I have no explanation for that behavior. regards, raja

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