[ redirecting to the HOpenGL mailing list, because this might be of general interest for Mac users ] Kevin Fowler wrote:
I'm just writing to say that I downloaded & compiled HOpenGL 1.04 on Mac OS X 10.2.6 using GHC 6.0.
Nice to hear! :-)
The changes to get it to compile using the X11 version of GLUT were pretty minimal. Most of the demos work and those that don't fail because the OpenGL support isn't there in X11.
Could you send your changes? Perhaps I can make an "ultra-last" release of the HOpenGL-1.0x series if it is worthwhile. And which demos fail exactly?
Getting it to work with the native ("Cocoa") GLUT included with Mac OS involved a bit more work (specifying frameworks, different headers---GLUT/glut.h mostly, linking against libobjc, etc.) The GLUT and Redbook demos seem to work fine.
Again, the changes would be interesting. Wolfgang Thaller, who seems to be "Mr. Mac" on this mailing list, has probably done something similar, so it would be nice to hear from him about HOpenGL 1.04, too. The interest in Macs seems to be growing since Apple ships a more "mainstream" OS, but, alas, I don't have access to such a platform. This means that I depend on other people to get/keep HOpenGL running there. The current development for HOpenGL happens in the fptools repository, but I can only test on x86 Linux (SuSE) and WinDoze. Are there any people on this list building a GHC from CVS on a different platform (esp. Macs)? If yes, it would be helpful if they could try using configure's --enable-hopengl option and report on the outcome of the compilation. fptools/libraries/GLUT/examples contains some simple examples for testing. Apart from tweaking some options for the preprocessor and the linker, fptools/libraries/OpenGL/{include/HsOpenGL.h,cbits/HsOpenGL.c} will probably need some attention on new platforms. They handle the OpenGL extension mechanism for GLX (most *nices) and WGL (WinDoze), but things are different on Macs. Cheers, S.