[HOpenGL] Stable version
Sven Panne
Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:02:21 +0100
After a few (de-)installation cycles I finally figured out the OpenGL
header story for the WinDoze versions of GHC:
* GHC 5.04 contains a GL subdir with OpenGL headers below include\mingw.
Those headers seem to come from a Cygwin distribution, despite of the
misleading pathname.
* Alas, GHC 5.04.1 and GHC 5.04.2 are not shipped with OpenGL headers.
* The WinDoze installer packages for *both* GHC 5.04 and GHC 5.04.1 are
called 'ghc-5-04-1.msi'?! This is where part of my confusion came from.
I suggest changing this on haskell.org/ghc.
* As an aside, the GHC 5.04.2 installer comes with superfluous compilers
and support libraries for C++, Objective-C and Fortran77. Leaving these
out would reduce the unpacked size of GHC by 6.3MB. :-)
Some more confusing facts about MinGW and Cygwin:
* MinGW's headers GL/gl{,u,ext}.h are identical to the ones from Cygwin's
w32api/GL. The GL/glext.h header is lying about the OpenGL version on
WinDoze, pretending it's 1.3.
* MinGW comes with a GLUT libraries, but not with a corresponding
GL/glut.h header.
What to do in all this chaos? As the simplest short-term solution I've
packaged the following headers into a ZIP file:
include/mingw/GL/gl.h (from Cygwin's w32api/GL == MinGW's GL)
include/mingw/GL/glu.h (from Cygwin's w32api/GL == MinGW's GL)
include/mingw/GL/glut.h (from Cygwin's GL)
include/mingw/GL/glext.h (from Cygwin's w32api/GL == MinGW's GL)
It is available at:
http://haskell.org/HOpenGL/releases/OpenGL-includes.zip
Simply unzip it into the installation directory of GHC 5.04.1 or 5.04.2
(e.g. C:\ghc\ghc-5.04.2 for the default 5.04.2 installation). It would
be nice if upcoming WinDoze installers for GHC were shipped with those
headers.
Cheers,
S.