[HOpenGL] Example Program and Compiliation?

[Shae Matijs Erisson]

"Eric L. Zeltmann" <paladin at sunybsg.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently downloaded the new version of HOpenGL (1.05) and ghc(6.0.1),
> compiled them, set them up without any problems.  
>
> Now I'm trying to strech my wings a little by doing some intial
> programs.  Unfortunately there isn't any recent tutorials, and I know
> that HOpenGL has gone through some interface name changes.  I was hoping
> that maybe somebody on the list could give me an short example program,
> or atleast how to run ghc to compile the Hello.hs program found in the
> examples/redbook_hs directory, outside of running the makefile (ie, what
> would be the command I would run to compile it, what packages etc.)
>
> I am currently working on a linux system, but if you only know windows,
> I can probably translate between the two.
>
> Thank you for your time, and if you just find this annoying, delete it.

I'm still not sure whether OpenGL or HOpenGL is the canonically correct
version, but the ghc6-hopengl debian package maintainer (Ian Lynagh) wrote this
cute demo script that works with the HOpenGL debs he created:
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