[Haskell] new SOE package and the annoucement of GLFW

[Paul L]

l'd love to put GLFW on the hackage site, but the Cabal packaging is
puzzling me.

The GLFW C library is small and meant to be statically linked, which
means the Cabal
installation has to put all *.o files from under glfw/<platform>/ into
the libHSGLFW-0.1.a (or whatever it's called). I don't know how to do
this in Cabal in a truely cross-platform manner, so I'm using a custom
script to finish the installation step.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

BTW: Not having to deal with all the GLUT wierdness is such a relief
for writing OpenGL programs.

Regards
Paul Liu

On 8/30/07, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Great!  Put it on the Hackage site?
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: haskell-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Paul L
> | Sent: 29 August 2007 20:50
> | To: haskell
> | Subject: [Haskell] new SOE package and the annoucement of GLFW
> |
> | Hi all,
> |
> | After much struggle to bring the SOE source to be compatible with the
> | latest GHC, I'm pleased to announce that it's available at
> |
> |   http://www.haskell.org/soe
> |
> | It's has been tested on Windows (both XP and Vista), Linux and Mac OS
> | X under GHC 6.6.1. The code now requires a Haskell package GLFW, an
> | interface to the GLFW OpenGL Framework (http://glfw.sourceforge.net),
> | which is an alternative to GLUT for OpenGL based programs.
> |
> | Most SOE code examples are not affected by this change except that
> | they now make use of the included SOE.hs instead of the previous
> | SOEGraphics module. The SOE.hs now handles all window and drawing
> | activities through GLFW and OpenGL. The music part of SOE code has
> | also been brought up to date.
> |
> | Please help to report bugs or suggestions if you have any. Help is
> | also needed to make the GLFW Haskell package fully compatible with
> | cross-platform Cabal installation steps.
> |
> | Regards,
> | Paul Liu
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