[HOpenGL] HOpenGL & GHC-5.02

[Carl R. Witty]

Sven Panne <Sven_Panne@BetaResearch.de> writes:

> > Andre W B Furtado wrote:
> > [...] I still needed to use cygwin because otherwise I wouldn't have
> > how to issue commands like "configure", "make depend", "make', ...
> 
> I guess you are using a HOpenGL version from a tar file and not the CVS
> one. Hmmm, I don't think compiling that version is really feasible without
> the GNU toolchain. But you're right, the goal should definitely be a simple
> "ghc --make blahblah". I have to upgrade my box at home a little bit to
> try a few things before I can say how far away the CVS version is from this
> goal. Has anybody tried this lately?
>
> Apart from that, some binary releases would wake sense, too. What platforms
> exactly are the people on this list using? Currently I have access to Win98,
> Intel-Linux (SuSE) and Sparc-Solaris.

I use Linux/x86 (Debian testing); the "alien" program often works for
letting me use RPM's.  But a source release (tarball or even CVS) with
a documented build procedure that doesn't involve rebuilding all of
ghc would be almost as good as a binary release.  (Currently I'm using
a version that I compiled by rebuilding ghc with --enable-hopengl, a
process which takes many hours on my machine.)

> BTW, for testing purposes it would be nice if I had some code people out
> there wrote using HOpenGL. Integrating that into the CVS examples CVS would
> be even nicer.

I might send some examples this weekend.  Do you want them straight to
you, or should I send them to the list?

Carl