[Haskell-cafe] GLfloat on a Mac

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 12, at 5:11, Conor McBride wrote:

> $ ghc -package GLUT HelloWorld.lhs -o HelloWorld
> Illegal instruction
>
> I'm using ghc 6.8.3 on a Mac PowerBook G4. Googling
> "OpenGL illegal instruction" produced an unending
> choice of horror stories.
>
> What message am I not getting? Is there some crucial
> manual I'm not reading? Is there something which we
> should be being told on the relevant wiki page?


You need to find (or build) a G4-compatible ghc; the 6.8.3 build for  
Leopard (and Tiger?) was built for a G5, and the above is the result.

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