On 11/22/08, Don Stewart
ninegua:
Hi everyone,
It's sad to see the OpenGL binding being dropped from GHC binary installers starting from 6.10. Though this issue has been brought up and discussed before, I'm sure a lot of people who based their work on OpenGL would share the same sympathy.
$ cabal install OpenGL
Nice except that: 1. The command cabal requires cabal-install package to be installed, is it already bundled with all GHC 6.10.1 distributions? 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).
This would be a job for the Windows distribution team to sort out. Each other distro addresses the native packaging problem by developing packages, and what is needed for a similar team for Windows, to provide Windows packages.
Fair enough, a pitty that there is no rpm/emerge/macport equivalent for Windows. -- Regards, Paul Liu Yale Haskell Group http://www.haskell.org/yale