Sven Panne
Andre W B Furtado wrote: [...] I still needed to use cygwin because otherwise I wouldn't have how to issue commands like "configure", "make depend", "make', ...
I guess you are using a HOpenGL version from a tar file and not the CVS one. Hmmm, I don't think compiling that version is really feasible without the GNU toolchain. But you're right, the goal should definitely be a simple "ghc --make blahblah". I have to upgrade my box at home a little bit to try a few things before I can say how far away the CVS version is from this goal. Has anybody tried this lately?
Apart from that, some binary releases would wake sense, too. What platforms exactly are the people on this list using? Currently I have access to Win98, Intel-Linux (SuSE) and Sparc-Solaris.
I use Linux/x86 (Debian testing); the "alien" program often works for letting me use RPM's. But a source release (tarball or even CVS) with a documented build procedure that doesn't involve rebuilding all of ghc would be almost as good as a binary release. (Currently I'm using a version that I compiled by rebuilding ghc with --enable-hopengl, a process which takes many hours on my machine.)
BTW, for testing purposes it would be nice if I had some code people out there wrote using HOpenGL. Integrating that into the CVS examples CVS would be even nicer.
I might send some examples this weekend. Do you want them straight to you, or should I send them to the list? Carl