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

[Conal Elliott]

That post is by David Sankel (camior on #haskell), not by me.

My last name has two "t"s.

Good luck,   - Conal (Elliott)

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:06 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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