[Haskell-cafe] Installation of GLFW package

[Immanuel Normann]

Am Dienstag, den 02.10.2007, 23:18 +0800 schrieb Paul L:
> It seems like the GLFW C binaries wasn't included in your GLFW Haskell
> module installed. Did you do the last step by running install.bat or
> install.sh instead of "runhaskell Setup install"?

now it works! ... although I am unfortunately not able to reconstruct
what I did to make it running.

Thank you,
Immanuel
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Liu
> 
> On 10/2/07, Immanuel Normann <i.normann at iu-bremen.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just read the thread about "installation of GLUT package" started
> > at 9/3/2007 by Ronald Guida. Installation of the GLFW package is very
> > much related to that. However, I haven't found the solution for
> > installing the GLFW successsfully.
> >
> > I have downloaded
> >
> > http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hl293/download/GLFW-20070804.zip
> >
> > and followed the compile and installation instructions from the
> > README.txt file. Actually I haven't noticed any error messages.
> >
> > Then I tried SimpleGraphics from SOE (downloaded from
> > http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hl293/download/SOE-20070830.zip)
> > with ghci-6.6. Again loading the file did not raise any error.
> >
> > But when I tried to start
> >
> > main
> >   = runGraphics (
> >     do w <- openWindow
> >               "My First Graphics Program" (300,300)
> >        drawInWindow w (text (100,200) "Hello Graphics World")
> >        k <- getKey w
> >        closeWindow w
> >     )
> >
> > I got this error message:
> >
> > "During interactive linking, GHCi couldn't find the following symbol:
> >   GLFWzm0zi1_GraphicsziUIziGLFW_initializze_closure
> > This may be due to you not asking GHCi to load extra object files,
> > archives or DLLs needed by your current session.  Restart GHCi,
> > specifying
> > the missing library using the -L/path/to/object/dir and -lmissinglibname
> > flags, or simply by naming the relevant files on the GHCi command line.
> > Alternatively, this link failure might indicate a bug in GHCi."
> >
> > Here I am lost. What is the missing library?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Immanuel
> >
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