[Haskell-cafe] Building SDL-image package on Windows

[Garrick Chin]

Hello,

I'm trying to build the latest SDL-image package (0.5.2) from Hackage on
Windows and encountering problems.  These are the steps I've taken so far:

1.  Downloaded SDL 1.2.13 developmental library for Mingw32 to
E:\SDL-1.2.13, and SDL_image 1.2.6 developmental library for VC8 to
E:\SDL_image-1.2.6.
2.  Installed SDL package from Hackage, modifying the SDL.cabal according to
the included WIN32 readme file and then runghc Setup.lhs
configure/build/install
3.  Downloaded the SDL-image package from Hackage, modified the
SDL-image.cabal file to add the line "Include-Dirs:
E:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL, E:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL" so Cabal can find
the header files.  After doing "runghc Setup.lhs configure", "runghc
Setup.lhs build -v" gives me the following output:

Creating dist\build (and its parents)
Creating dist\build\autogen (and its parents)
Preprocessing library SDL-image-0.5.2...
Creating dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image (and its parents)
E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\hsc2hs.exe --cc=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe
--ld=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe --cflag=-package --cflag=SDL-0.5.4
--cflag=-package --cflag=base-3.0.1.0
--cflag=-IE:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL --cflag=-IE:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL
-o dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hs
Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hsc
E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x7):Main.c: undefined reference
to `__stginit_ZCMain'
E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x36):Main.c: undefined reference
to `ZCMain_main_closure'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
linking dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o failed
command was: E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe
dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o -o
dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.exe

The results of a limited google search suggests that the __stginit_ZCMain
linker error has to do with GHC expecting a main function, but I'm not
really sure how that works in context of a library.
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