[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] GHC 6.10 and OpenGL

[Jeff Heard]

I'm not sure..  can MSVC compiled libraries be intermixed with mingwin
libraries?  I see Conal has advised installing mingwin as part of his
GLUT packaging.

-- Jeff


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    $ cabal install OpenGL
>
> HOpenGL installs easily with cabal-install, but most HOpenGL examples
> and tutorials also use GLUT, which is not so painless on Windows.
> Luckily Conal Elliot just recently posted detailed instructions of how
> to do it:
>
> http://netsuperbrain.com/blog/posts/freeglut-windows-hopengl-hglut/
>
> -Greg
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>> ninegua:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> It's sad to see the OpenGL binding being dropped from GHC binary
>>> installers starting from 6.10. Though this issue has been brought up
>>> and discussed before, I'm sure a lot of people who based their work on
>>> OpenGL would share the same sympathy.
>>
>>    $ cabal install OpenGL
>>
>>> I'm not here to argue whether this decision by GHC dev team is right
>>> or wrong, but what's really causing the pain is that the OpenGL
>>> binding doesn't have its own binary installer for Windows, and
>>> compilation from source on this platform is non-trivial. I wouldn't
>>> recommend doing it for ordinary users.
>>
>>> So my question is, are we going to see a binary installer for OpenGL
>>> binding provided separately from either HOpenGL site, or Hackage? Or
>>> even the GHC installation page?
>>
>> This would be a job for the Windows distribution team to sort out.
>> Each other distro addresses the native packaging problem by developing
>> packages, and what is needed for a similar team for Windows, to provide
>> Windows packages.
>>
>> -- Don
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