On 11/23/08, Duncan Coutts
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).
Sure, I don't doubt it. The real trouble is the extra dependency to MinGW/MinSys. I'm reluctant to tell my users to go installing them just for the sake of compiling HOpenGL. Really, OpenGL is the only true cross-platform Graphics solution because it comes as default installation on all platforms. Nothing else comes close to my mind. On a side note, since GHC installation for Windows contains a version of gcc, I wonder how hard it would be to replace the autoconf compilation of HOPenGL with just cabal. Then we'll get rid of the MinGW/MinSys depedency all together. Isn't it the purpose of cabal to replace non-portable build systems (for Haskell at least)? -- Regards, Paul Liu Yale Haskell Group http://www.haskell.org/yale