Yes indeed, and various implementations of GLUT on Windows have different quirks.

The biggest lack of GLUT is its inability to load images...

IMHO if you want to do OpenGL with Haskell, it's best to start with Gtk2HS anyway, which has all the support needed.

Last time I checked the SDL binding did not work properly on Windows when using GHCi.

Another nice library that works well is GLFW, which SOE uses. See http://www.haskell.org/soe. It had some quirks on Windows, but I reported these and send over some patches, and it seems they are incorporated in the latest version (in a much cleaner way than my original patches ;-) It also runs more smoothly since it now uses GLFW's high resolution timer. It only lacks support for fonts, but it can load images, so creating a bitmap font should not be too difficult.

Cheers,
Peter

Jon Harrop wrote:

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 07:06, Jules Bean wrote:

As far as I'm aware, all GL implementations come with a GLUT
implementation.


No: GL is typically installed with your video card drivers and glut must be 
installed as a separate package. On Linux, package managers handle this 
transparently and most people have freeglut installed (there is also openglut 
and the original glut). I'm not sure about Mac OS X but I suspect it also 
bundles some kind of glut. The last time I looked at Windows it provided only 
minimal support for GL and no glut. You can install glut on a Windows box but 
you have to do it manually.

It doesn't give you a very sophisticated UI - hardly anything beyond the
ability to open new windows - but it does work, it's simple, and it's
cross platform.


Yes.