[Haskell-cafe] Installing HOpenGL

[Jimmy Miller]

I'll look at those.

Everything's working fine now, thanks for all of your help :)

On 6/24/07, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I found the examples included in the source code very helpful.
>
>    http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/GLUT/examples/
>
> I think the RedBook directory contains the most examples.
>
> If you want to know the modules a package exports you can use, e.g..
>
> $ ghc-pkg describe OpenGL
> name: OpenGL
> version: 2.2.1
> license: BSD3
> copyright:
> maintainer: sven.panne at aedion.de
> stability:
> homepage:
> package-url:
> description:
> category:
> author:
> exposed: True
> exposed-modules: Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.GL.Antialiasing
>                   Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.GL.BasicTypes
>                   [...]
>
> These are the full names of the modules, you have to use to import
> them.  For GLUT there's one module that re-exports all others, iirc.
>
> / Thomas
>
> On 25 jun 2007, at 01.21, Jimmy Miller wrote:
>
> > I got the packages imported by using the full names (Graphics.UI.GLUT
> > and Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.GL).  The compiler doesn't recognize
> > names like WindowPosition and WindowSize, but I assume that's because
> > the code is so out of date (this is from the 2001 tutorial).  I'll
> > look in the docs to see how to procede.
> >
> > On 6/24/07, Jimmy Miller <captainthunder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here it is.  Both OpenGL and GLUT are installed:
> >>     Cabal-1.1.6.2, GLUT-2.1.1, HUnit-1.1.1, OpenGL-2.2.1,
> >>     QuickCheck-1.0.1, Win32-2.1.1, base-2.1.1, cgi-3001.1.1,
> >> fgl-5.4.1,
> >>     filepath-1.0, (ghc-6.6.1), haskell-src-1.0.1, haskell98-1.0,
> >>     html-1.0.1, mtl-1.0.1, network-2.0.1, parsec-2.0, regex-
> >> base-0.72,
> >>     regex-compat-0.71, regex-posix-0.71, rts-1.0, stm-2.0,
> >>     template-haskell-2.1, time-1.1.1, xhtml-3000.0.2
> >>
> >> I tried using --make, but ghc said "could not find module GL"
> >>
> >> On 6/24/07, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On 25 jun 2007, at 00.18, Jimmy Miller wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I've installed ghc 6.6.1, but when I try to compile and OGL
> >> program
> >> > > like this:
> >> > >
> >> > > ghc -package GLUT ogl.hs
> >> > >
> >> > > I get the error:
> >> > > Failed to load interface for `GLUT':
> >> > >      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> >> > >
> >> > > I tried running -v, but it doesn't tell me anything useful.
> >> >
> >> > Can you post the output of "ghc-pkg list"?  If that doesn't list
> >> > GLUT, then it is not installed (or not correctly).  If it is
> >> > installed, you can try
> >> >
> >> >    ghc --make ogl.hs
> >> >
> >> > That usually takes care of all the required packages (so can
> >> avoid a
> >> > lot of fiddling around).
> >> >
> >> > / Thomas
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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