[HOpenGL] HOpenGL fo 5.04

[Nicolas.Oury]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Sven Panne wrote:

> Nicolas Oury wrote:
> > Hello, is there a version of hopengl working with ghc 5.04? [...]
>
> I guess you mean the latest and greatest GHC 5.04.2, because earlier
You guess well, as I didn't try with previous and 5.04.2 was a patchlevel
release, I had generalized. Sorry...


> versions work quite well with HOpenGL 1.03. Although 5.04.2 is supposed
> to be a patchlevel release without noticeable API changes, it isn't
> really: GHC's FFI has been synchronized with the FFI addendum, and there
> are some subtle changes, e.g. ForeignObjs can't be passed to external
> functions anymore.
>
That's the bug I have.



> I'm quite aware of this and have a version which is "almost" working,
> including the new GLUT binding with rather extensive Haddock-generated
> documentation, which is already part of the fptools repository:
>
>    http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/GLUT/
>
> I really hope that I can make a new release before Christmas, meanwhile
> you can either use GHC 5.04.1 or disable GLU quadrics, NURBS, and the
> tesselator by hand.
I don't need these three, but I wonder : should I use the releases on your
website or the CVS?

Best regards,

Nicolas.



>
> Cheers,
>    S.
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