Re: [Haskell-cafe] SDL and ALUT on Windows: "stdin Bad file descriptor"

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:52:03 +0100, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Thiago Negri wrote:

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I'm trying SDL on Windows, and things are getting really weird. I can compile the code (links on the end). When I run it, if I try using `stdin` the program crashes with this message:

<stdin>: hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)

You haven't even touched SDL at that point in that source code.

If I had to guess, something (possibly a linker option embedded in the SDL binding) is causing your program to be built as a Windows GUI (as opposed to Windows Console) so it has no stdin. I couldn't tell you much more than that, though; the ways of Windows development are foreign to me.

You probably used -optl-mwindows in the compile command, to prevent the DOS-shell appearing behind your window. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --