[Haskell-cafe] Help on using System.Win32.Com.Automation

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Alexandr N. Zamaraev wrote:
> Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
>> Hi Wilkes,
>>
>> you may want to have a look at a simple example of how to
>> interop with Windows WMI using the COM package at --
>>
>>  http://haskell.forkio.com/com-examples
> I try compile WMIDemo.hs but recive error:
> [code]
> c:\htest>ghc --make WMIDemo.hs
> [2 of 2] Compiling WMIDemo          ( WMIDemo.hs, WMIDemo.o )
>
> WMIDemo.hs:24:2:
>     Couldn't match expected type `[a]' against inferred type `(a1, b)'
...

Hi,

please upgrade to the latest version - 1.2.2 - of the com package for 
this example,

   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/com

There's been some improvements to the lib, esp. the handling of enumerations
(which is where that type error is coming from.)

hth
--sigbjorn