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

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 23:34 -0500, Paul L wrote:

On 11/22/08, Don Stewart wrote:

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ninegua:

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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?

It will be bundled in the Haskell platform installer (as will OpenGL). In the mean time here's a binary: http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/cabal.exe

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). Duncan