[Haskell-cafe] SDL and ALUT on Windows: "stdin Bad file descriptor"

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:52:03 +0100, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Thiago Negri <evohunz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying SDL on Windows, and things are getting really weird.
>> I can compile the code (links on the end).
>> When I run it, if I try using `stdin` the program crashes with this
>> message:
>>
>> <stdin>: hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)
>>
>
> You haven't even touched SDL at that point in that source code.
>
> If I had to guess, something (possibly a linker option embedded in the  
> SDL
> binding) is causing your program to be built as a Windows GUI (as opposed
> to Windows Console) so it has no stdin.  I couldn't tell you much more  
> than
> that, though; the ways of Windows development are foreign to me.
>

You probably used -optl-mwindows in the compile command, to prevent the  
DOS-shell appearing behind your window.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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