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Google Summer of Code 2006
by Paolo Martini 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello, Haskell.org is going to partecipate as mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code programme of this year. We have formed a group of volunteers taking care of the administrative work as well as the mentoring part. The group is listed here: <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Summer_of_Code:_People>. We are now looking for projects, and mentors. We've reached number 24 but we are happily going to add more, Haskell Open Source paid work for the summer! If you run some active open source program you might want to mentor some student who will be working on your code, for example. Either just add your ideas here: <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Summer_of_Code:_Project_suggestions> (as well as your informations on the People's page) or contact me for details. I am also looking for students, I'd like to ear from them if they are going to partecipate with Haskell projects, last year I was alone! (I did write the bindings to the Cairo vector graphics library and integrated them in Gtk2Hs.) Details about the programme itself can be found on the official webpage: http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Hoping you like the idea as much as me, Paolo. --

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multMatrix
by Bas van Dijk 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi, I would like to know how to multiply the current matrix with, for example, the following translation matrix in RowMajor order: [1,0,0,x ,0,1,0,y ,0,0,1,z ,0,0,0,1] I know I must use: multMatrix :: (Matrix m, MatrixComponent c) => m c -> IO () but I don't know how to call it. Can anybody help me? Greetings, Bas

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standard opengl z axis reversed in hopengl ?
by minh thu 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

hi, I thought the z axis increases towards the user. but translate (Vector3 (-0.2) (-0.2) (-0.2::GLfloat)) translates a bit towards the left, down and *the user*. Is it the standard opengl behavior ? thank you, vo minh thu

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GLUT in GHC 6.4.1
by J. Garrett Morris 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hello, I have GHC 6.4.1 on Debian Linux x86_64, and I have just discovered that the GLUT package is not included. Is there an easy way for me to get it? Thanks, /g

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How's it done?
by Chris Campbell 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi, Hope you forgive the intrusion of an OCaml user. :) I'm interested in how HOpenGL is built. Ocaml has two bindings to OpenGL and while usuable, they are not kept up to date (mostly 1.0 with a few 1.1 functions thrown in), so I'm exploring two options; extending one of the current bindings manually or building a new one, hopefully automating part of the process (or possibly a hybrid approach). The web pages look a little out of date, but from what I can gather this is what I think happens. First, the spec files are parsed and the types and functions are noted. Next a flat C and Haskell file are generated from the info from the previous stage. The C file interfaces with haskell runtime. Conversion from Haskell types to the numerical values of enumerations is done in the Haskell layer. The functions in the haskell file are then called by a set of hierachical modules which have been manually created and turn the flat GL namespace into a hierachical one. Is that about right or am I missing something/way off on a tangent? Obviously there are differences between OCaml and Haskell and the FFIs, but I'd appreciate any advice. The most difficult part looks like mapping between C types and Ocaml types due to the stronger typing. Thanks for your time and sorry for the intrusion, Chris

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Re: rendering fonts with OpenGL
by Sven Panne 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

[ redirecting to the hopengl list... ] Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 14:32 schrieb Felix Breuer: > What is the recommended way to render fonts (i.e. text) using GHC and > OpenGL? > > I know about libraries/GLUT/examples/RedBook/Font.hs, but I do not want > to define the font's letter by hand. So, my questions are: > > * Is there a ready-to-use way load fonts (e.g. using FreeType)? AFAIK, there is no Haskell binding for loading fonts and/or a FreeType binding. Any volunteers? > * Is there a library implementing some OpenGL font rendering method > (bitmap, texturemap, outline, etc.) that can be used from GHC? Not yet, apart from the rudimentary font support in GLUT, see: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/GLUT/Graphics.UI.GLUT.Fon… > * Does anyone have example code for the above? I think the most comprehensive overview is here (of course for C only): http://www.opengl.org/resources/features/fontsurvey/ If you are looking for high performance font rendering with current graphic cards, by all means use texturing. This is what all mainstream cards that I know of are optimized for, and it has a few nice benefits like scalability and anti-aliasing. Using other techniques you easily end up waiting for the loooong graphic pipelines to be flushed before you can "simply" do some manipulations of the frame buffer. It can be very surprising if a simple frames-per-second counter displayed in some corner of the screen drastically reduces the FPS of your home-grown Quake-clone. Of course this has *never* happened to me... ;-) Cheers, S.

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Re: [HOpenGL] FW: ghc-6.4.1 on solaris
by Sven Panne 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 10:04 schrieb Christian Maeder: > No, sorry, I did not fully inspect the log (~maeder/haskell/leo-ghc.log2) > > ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -Wall -fffi -Iinclude '-#include > "HsOpenG > L.h"' -cpp -funbox-strict-fields -I/usr/local/X11/include > -DCALLCONV=ccall -igno > re-package OpenGL -O -Rghc-timing -fgenerics -package base -fgenerics > -split-obj > s -c Graphics/Rendering/OpenGL/GL/VertexSpec.hs -o > Graphics/Rendering/OpenGL/G > L/VertexSpec.o -ohi Graphics/Rendering/OpenGL/GL/VertexSpec.hi > /tmp/ghc2171.hc: In function `scP4_ret': > /tmp/ghc2171.hc:6847: error: unable to find a register to spill in class > `GENERAL > _REGS' > /tmp/ghc2171.hc:6847: error: this is the insn: > (insn 36 35 37 0 (set (reg:DF 9 %o1 [ d ]) > (reg:DF 44 %f12 [orig:111 d ] [111])) 89 {*movdf_insn_sp32} > (insn_list 15 > (nil)) > (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:DF 44 %f12 [orig:111 d ] [111]) > (nil))) > /tmp/ghc2171.hc:6847: confused by earlier errors, bailing out > <<ghc: 653241564 bytes, 371 GCs, 6636794/11308564 avg/max bytes > residency (7 samp > les), 30M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 8.15 MUT (19.85 elapsed), > 3.05 GC (5. > 46 elapsed) :ghc>> > gmake[2]: *** [Graphics/Rendering/OpenGL/GL/VertexSpec.o] Error 1 > gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/maeder/haskell/leo-ghc/libraries' > gmake: *** [build] Error 1 > + date > Wed Jul 13 05:39:16 MEST 2005 That's really strange, because I think I've used the same machine and the same setup... Hmmm, I'll update and rebuild again (using my previous GHC from HEAD and the gcc from /usr/local/bin/gcc, which seems to be the default one in the path). Cheers, S.

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RE: [HOpenGL] FW: ghc-6.4.1 on solaris
by Simon Marlow 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

On 12 July 2005 11:52, Christian Maeder wrote: > Sven Panne wrote: >> FYI: I've just committed a fix to CVS HEAD for GHC on SPARC to >> reduce the register pressure on gcc, which will probably make its >> way into GHC 6.4.1. The OpenGL/GLUT packages compile fine now with >> gcc 3.4.4 on SPARC, success stories and/or tragic failures with this >> patch are highly welcome... > > Good, I'm trying to create a release. Would you also dare to look into > the mangler to fix the linking problem of ghci? Or do you have clue > how to do this, Simon? Sorry, I don't have any idea what's causing that problem. Cheers, Simon

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FW: ghc-6.4.1 on solaris
by Simon Marlow 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

[ forwarding to hopengl(a)haskell.org ] Christian is having trouble compiling the HOpenGL in GHC 6.4 on Solaris. The symptom is a gcc crash when compiling Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.GL.VertexSpec (see attached log). It fails with gcc 4.0.0 and 3.3.6. Is there anything in that file that might cause gcc trouble, such as foreign calls to inline C functions maybe? Any guesses at a workaround? Cheers, Simon On 09 June 2005 10:34, Christian Maeder wrote: > Simon Marlow wrote: >> That's a serious problem - gcc has run out of registers and can't >> compile that module. You could try a different version of gcc, that >> might help. > > Also gcc-3.3.6 fails, see attached gzipped log file > > Christian

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HopenGL on Windows XP
by Scott J. 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hi, None of the examples of OpenGL at http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/fptools/libraries/GLUT… do work . E.g. for Planet.hs I get during compilation with ghc-6.2.2 Planet.hs: 30: parse error on input `-&' Any help more than welcome. I use Windows XP and ghc-6.2.2

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