Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] GHC 6.10 and OpenGL

Duncan, what kind of help do you need on the Haskell Platform install? I have access to VMs running windows XP and Vista. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 08:00 -0500, Paul L wrote:

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On 11/23/08, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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2. It still wouldn't work for the OpenGL package on Windows, because the configure scripts require a Unix-style built environment (MinGW/MinSys or Cygwin).

Yes, building it requires mingw/msys, but with it cabal install opengl really does work (I've tried it).

Sure, I don't doubt it. The real trouble is the extra dependency to MinGW/MinSys. I'm reluctant to tell my users to go installing them just for the sake of compiling HOpenGL.

Sure, we're currently in an intermediate situation where the ghc release is smaller but we've not had the first platform release yet.

We're only suggesting cabal install opengl on windows for developers, not for your users.

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On a side note, since GHC installation for Windows contains a version of gcc, I wonder how hard it would be to replace the autoconf compilation of HOPenGL with just cabal. Then we'll get rid of the MinGW/MinSys depedency all together. Isn't it the purpose of cabal to replace non-portable build systems (for Haskell at least)?

That may well be possible and wherever it is possible we should do it. The MinGW dependency is certainly a pain. Consider this an invitation for anyone to go take a look at the configure scripts for these packages and see how easy they'd be to replace with pure Haskell in the Setup.hs.

Duncan

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