HDBC-ODBC compile problem

[Jason Dagit]

On 7/17/06, Robert Dockins <robdockins at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Jason Dagit wrote:
>
> > Robert Dockins <robdockins <at> fastmail.fm> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I'm having a problem compiling a HDBC-ODBC on Windows.  I'm not sure
> >> if the problem is with hdbc-odbc or with the Windows GHC package or
> >> if I've done something stupid or what.  Windows is not my native
> >> habitat, so forgive me if I've left out something obvious.
> >>
> >> I'm using a Cygwin shell, but I don't think that matters.  As far as
> >> I can tell, the GHC package contains all the mingw stuff it needs.
> >> I'm using the GHC 6.4.2 package from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> >> download_ghc_642.html on a pretty standard Windows XP setup.
> >>
> >> The compile is failing during preprocessing:  it looks like hsc2hs
> >> isn't finding something.  It generates a bunch of syntax errors for
> >> basic types like ULONG, etc.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.
> >>
> >> Here is the output from the attempted compile session:
> > [snip compiler output]
> >
> > I'm having the exact same build error on ghc-6.5 (visual haskell
> > actually) on
> > windows.  I have no clue how to proceed which makes me sad because
> > I was really
> > looking forward to using HDBC.  Maybe someone knows a work around?
> >
> > I'm not on this list, yet, (sending this via gmane) so if you could
> > CC to me
> > that would be great.
>
> I got a resolution to this problem on a different mailing list:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/
> msg10063.html
>
>
> I've attached a patch that makes it work for me.  It's not cross-
> platform happy, but it makes the Windows compile work.  Darcs "get"
> from http://darcs.complete.org/hdbc-odbc/ and apply the patch.

Your patch did the trick.  Thank you very much.

Jason