Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation of GLUT package

Paul L wrote:

I believe it's caused by the different versions of GLUT you have.

On 9/8/07, Ronald Guida wrote:

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[...] Loading package OpenGL-2.2.1 ... linking ... done. Loading package GLUT-2.1.1 ... linking ... done.

The above message was after you have installed GLUT-2.0, but GHC was still loading GLUT-2.1.1. The later errors were caused by your forced copy of 2.0 lib over the default 2.1.1.

I noticed this myself. The problem is, I don't know where to get GLUT-2.1.1. If I look on Hackage [1] and select GLUT from the Graphics category, I am directed to GLUT-2.0. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html

I suggest you get the cabal version of latest GLUT, which is 2.1.1, and build it from source. I did the same on Linux some time ago, and I was able to use freeGLUT and openGLUT as a result.

Clearly, I'm missing something here. Where do I have to go to get the latest version of GLUT? Also, after I built freeglut with VS-2003, I copied the include files, the lib file, and the dll to the correct places (relative to VS-2003) and I could successfully compile the examples that came with freeglut. MinGW/MSYS doesn't know about VS-2003 include directories, so where am I supposed to put the freeglut include and lib files relative to MinGW/MSYS? Thank you -- Ron