[Haskell-cafe] Installation of GLUT package

[Ronald Guida]

Paul L wrote:
 > But again, why stuck with GLUT? Now there is at least one alternative,
 > GLFW (http://glfw.sourceforge.net) a cross-platform framework for
 > OpenGL applications, for which I recently wrote a Haskell interface,
 > downloadable at http://www.haskell.org/soe/software1.htm. It's
 > certainly experimental though. The GLFW C library itself is well
 > documented, but the Haskell module still isn't. The only example so
 > far is the soe.hs in the SOE package.

Good news:

I abandoned GLUT and looked at GLFW.  I had similar problems getting
GLFW to work with GHC and GHCi.  After a bunch of hacking, I got GLFW
to work for me.

I have to invoke GHCi with the command line [1] and I have to invoke
the compiler like [2], but hey, it works :)

 [1] "ghci <myfile.hs> glfw_hack.o -lopengl32 -lglu32"
 [2] "ghc --make <myfile.hs> glfw_hack.o -lopengl32 -lglu32"

-- Ron