OpengGL lockup using GHC 6.6 on Intel Mac

[Deborah Goldsmith]

I can get this to work if I compile it with ghc, rather than try to  
run it with ghci or hugs.

ghc --make Alpha3D.hs
./Alpha3D

works fine with no hangs.

Deborah

On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

> It fails on PowerPC too, using the standard PPC distribution.
>
> Deborah
>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>
>> This also fails in Hugs (crashes rather than hangs), so it looks  
>> like it's a problem with the GLUT binding on Mac OS X Intel rather  
>> than something specific to GHC. I'll see if I can find a PPC  
>> machine to try it on also.
>>
>> Deborah
>>
>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>>
>>> I can reproduce this with ghc-6.6 built from source as well. I  
>>> sampled ghc while it was stuck like this, and it looks like it's  
>>> trying to open a GUI event loop (not surprising if it's opening a  
>>> window). It looks like something about that is not working.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the Intel binary distribution on the downloads  
>>> page is missing some of the OpenGL C headers, and so won't work  
>>> properly either.
>>>
>>> Deborah
>>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Joe Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, it doesn't lock the whole machine but loading Alpha3D.hs int
>>>> GHCi and typing main causes a window to be displayed with no  
>>>> content
>>>> and ghc 6.6 locked up, requiring a hard kill.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/1/06, Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de> wrote:
>>>>> Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 19:29 schrieb Joe Jones:
>>>>> > [...] Anyone know of any issues with the current HOpenGL on  
>>>>> Intel? [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> The Haskell versions of the NeHe tutorials work for me on  
>>>>> x86_64 openSUSE 10.1
>>>>> (GHC 6.6 and bleeding edge GHC from darcs repo, perhaps a few  
>>>>> weeks old), so
>>>>> I guess that this is a Mac issue. Jason converted the tutorials  
>>>>> on a G4, so I
>>>>> assume it is a problem with Mac + Intel. I don't have access to  
>>>>> such a
>>>>> platform, so some help is needed. Do any of the examples from
>>>>>
>>>>>    http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/GLUT/examples/
>>>>>
>>>>> work on your platform?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>    S.
>>>>>
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