Hello,
I'm trying to build the latest SDL-image package (0.5.2) from Hackage on Windows and encountering problems. These are the steps I've taken so far:
1. Downloaded SDL 1.2.13 developmental library for Mingw32 to E:\SDL-1.2.13, and SDL_image 1.2.6 developmental library for VC8 to E:\SDL_image-1.2.6.
2. Installed SDL package from Hackage, modifying the SDL.cabal according to the included WIN32 readme file and then runghc Setup.lhs configure/build/install
3. Downloaded the SDL-image package from Hackage, modified the SDL-image.cabal file to add the line "Include-Dirs: E:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL, E:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL" so Cabal can find the header files. After doing "runghc Setup.lhs configure", "runghc Setup.lhs build -v" gives me the following output:
Creating dist\build (and its parents)
Creating dist\build\autogen (and its parents)
Preprocessing library SDL-image-0.5.2...
Creating dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image (and its parents)
E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\hsc2hs.exe --cc=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe --ld=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe --cflag=-package --cflag=SDL-0.5.4 --cflag=-package --cflag=base-3.0.1.0 --cflag=-IE:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL --cflag=-IE:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL -o dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hs Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hsc
E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x7):Main.c: undefined reference to `__stginit_ZCMain'
E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x36):Main.c: undefined reference to `ZCMain_main_closure'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
linking dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o failed
command was: E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o -o dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.exe
The results of a limited google search suggests that the __stginit_ZCMain linker error has to do with GHC expecting a main function, but I'm not really sure how that works in context of a library.