Good news: On the haskell-cafe mailing list, Paul L wrote:
But again, why stuck with GLUT? Now there is at least one alternative, GLFW (http://glfw.sourceforge.net) a cross-platform framework for OpenGL applications, for which I recently wrote a Haskell interface, downloadable at http://www.haskell.org/soe/software1.htm. It's certainly experimental though. The GLFW C library itself is well documented, but the Haskell module still isn't. The only example so far is the soe.hs in the SOE package.
I abandoned GLUT and looked at GLFW. I had similar problems getting
GLFW to work with GHC and GHCi. After a bunch of hacking, I got GLFW
to work for me.
I have to invoke GHCi with the command line [1] and I have to invoke
the compiler like [2], but hey, it works :)
[1] "ghci