[Haskell-cafe] Pixel plotter

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 15:14 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
>> I find it a petty the library does not work with GHCi :-(  It has  
>> to do with the threaded RTS I guess. Any hints how I could fix this?
>
> Yeah, lots of things seem to dislike running in GHCi. (I'm guessing  
> this is to do with trying to talk to C from inside an  
> interpreter... I don't really know for sure why it doesn't work,  
> but it doesn't surprise me.)

Could be that (but I think unlikely), or threading (common; gtk2hs  
has hacks specifically for ghci/runghc), or special initialization  
needed for windowing programs (I think Windows requires this, and I  
know OSX does).

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