[Haskell-cafe] Serial Communications in Haskell

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

mmitar:
> Hi!
> 
> > Of course, I don't know how to call Windows API functions from Haskell,
> > and I have no idea how to hook things to the IO library so that I can
> > use a Handle for a serial port.  I'm looking for some advice on how to
> > proceed.
> 
> You can check how I did this in my Lego Mindstorms NXT interface,
> pre-beta version:
> 
> http://www.forzanka.si/files/NXT.tgz
> 
> It is for UNIX (POSIX?) systems but I had similar problems so I had to
> use FFI (foreign function interface) to setup a link. You will
> probably just have to replace that with Windows API calls. I hope.
> 

That's really cool! I hope you can upload this to hackage soon.

-- Don