[Haskell-cafe] glut installation using cabal failed

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 01:53 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:25:52 +0200, Raja Koduru <kscraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > I am a beginner to haskell.
> >
> > I am trying to install glut using "cabal install glut"
> > Pasting here a tail of the output

> > checking for GLUT/glut.h... no
> > configure: error: no GLUT header found, so this package cannot be built
> > See `config.log' for more details.

> >
> > But I do have "glut.h" in my "D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw\GL".
> >
> 
> Define the environment variable:
>    C_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw
> (you can add more directories, separate them by ';')
> To let the linker find the libraries, define LIBRARY_PATH.

Hmm, that is annoying.

I've filed a tracker bug here:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/11

and also noted the issue here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/458#comment:2

Duncan