OpengGL lockup using GHC 6.6 on Intel Mac

[Deborah Goldsmith]

It fails on PowerPC too, using the standard PPC distribution.

Deborah

On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

> This also fails in Hugs (crashes rather than hangs), so it looks  
> like it's a problem with the GLUT binding on Mac OS X Intel rather  
> than something specific to GHC. I'll see if I can find a PPC  
> machine to try it on also.
>
> Deborah
>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>
>> I can reproduce this with ghc-6.6 built from source as well. I  
>> sampled ghc while it was stuck like this, and it looks like it's  
>> trying to open a GUI event loop (not surprising if it's opening a  
>> window). It looks like something about that is not working.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the Intel binary distribution on the downloads page  
>> is missing some of the OpenGL C headers, and so won't work  
>> properly either.
>>
>> Deborah
>>
>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Joe Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Well, it doesn't lock the whole machine but loading Alpha3D.hs int
>>> GHCi and typing main causes a window to be displayed with no content
>>> and ghc 6.6 locked up, requiring a hard kill.
>>>
>>> On 12/1/06, Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de> wrote:
>>>> Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 19:29 schrieb Joe Jones:
>>>> > [...] Anyone know of any issues with the current HOpenGL on  
>>>> Intel? [...]
>>>>
>>>> The Haskell versions of the NeHe tutorials work for me on x86_64  
>>>> openSUSE 10.1
>>>> (GHC 6.6 and bleeding edge GHC from darcs repo, perhaps a few  
>>>> weeks old), so
>>>> I guess that this is a Mac issue. Jason converted the tutorials  
>>>> on a G4, so I
>>>> assume it is a problem with Mac + Intel. I don't have access to  
>>>> such a
>>>> platform, so some help is needed. Do any of the examples from
>>>>
>>>>    http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/GLUT/examples/
>>>>
>>>> work on your platform?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>    S.
>>>>
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