[Haskell-cafe] HP/Cygwin and Curl

[Chris Dornan]

Thanks ever so much for your clear answer. I have no problem at all with
using MSYS to build libraries that link to libraries built in Windows
land--this seems entirely reasonable.

Is this written down somewhere? I mean I really would like to RTFM! :-)

Also, what's with

	C:\Program Files\Haskell
Platform\2010.1.0.0\lib\..\mingw\bin\windres: can't open temporary file
`\/cca01252.irc': No such file or directory

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Tetley [mailto:stephen.tetley at gmail.com] 
Sent: 07 June 2010 20:19
To: Chris Dornan
Cc: Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] HP/Cygwin and Curl

Hi Chris

HP can be used fine with Cygwin. Where a library in the HP is a binding to a
C library, the HP supplies the relevant C library as an *.a file, e.g
libglu32.a and libglut32.a for OpenGL. Pure Haskell libraries will install
fine under Cygwin as well.

Bindings to additional C libraries like Curl are problematic, for one thing
Cygwin static libraries have a different object format to MinGW ones. With
effort and knowledge, FFI libraries/bindings can be made to work with Cygwin
but I don't think anyone is looking at this systematically (and documenting
their methods). Practically speaking using MinGW / MSYS to build and install
bindings is the solution.

Best wishes

Stephen