[web-devel] [Haskell-cafe] network-2.3.0.10 compiled for ghc 7.4.1 windows

[Johan Tibell]

Note that there are two branches on github, master and stable. You want the
latter.
On Feb 7, 2012 8:23 AM, "Alberto G. Corona" <agocorona at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is quite different.
> I don´t know how but I was looking at some other older patch around
> the same issue and I supposed that it was the one refered by Yohan
> Tibell.
>
> I´ll try your patch.
>
> Thanks!.
>
> 2012/2/7 Holger Reinhardt <hreinhardt at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (I submitted the patch that Johan linked to)
> > Network/Socket/Internal.hsc has the following code:
> >
> > #if defined(WITH_WINSOCK) || defined(cygwin32_HOST_OS)
> > type CSaFamily = (#type unsigned short)
> > #elif defined(darwin_HOST_OS)
> > type CSaFamily = (#type u_char)
> > #else
> > type CSaFamily = (#type sa_family_t)
> > #endif
> >
> > You have patched this part to always use 'unsigned short'. But the real
> > issue is that WITH_WINSOCK is not defined, even though it should be. The
> > reason for this lies in include/HsNet.h:
> >
> > #if defined(HAVE_WINSOCK_H) && !defined(cygwin32_HOST_OS)
> > # define WITH_WINSOCK  1
> > #endif
> >
> > The problem here is that it checks for HAVE_WINSOCK_H, but the configure
> > script never defines this variable. Instead it defines HAVE_WINSOCK2_H.
> It
> > seems that the network library used Winsock1 in the past and in the
> > transition to Winsock2 someone forgot to change a few of the #ifdefs.
> >
> > My patch just changes all occurences of HAVE_WINSOCK_H
> to HAVE_WINSOCK2_H.
> > You might want to try that and report back if it works for you.
> >
> > 2012/2/7 Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi Johan,
> >> The patch is not for the current version of network and the code is
> >> quite different. Basically it is necesary to  define this variable as
> >> "unsigned short" that is the thing intended in the patch. however I
> >> put it by brute force, without regard of the prerpocessor directives.
> >> With this change the code compiles well with:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2010/12/installing-haskell-network-library-on.html
> >>
> >> However my compiled library lack the methods defined as foreign. I´ll
> >> keep trying.
> >>
> >> 2012/2/6 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Someone recently contributed a fix that should make network build with
> >> > 7.4: https://github.com/haskell/network/pull/25
> >> >
> >> > Can you see if that works for you? I haven't yet had time to merge and
> >> > release that fix (I'm on vacation.)
> >> >
> >> > -- Johan
> >> >
> >>
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