[Haskell-cafe] glut installation using cabal failed

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:44:44 +0200, Duncan Coutts  
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 01:53 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:25:52 +0200, Raja Koduru <kscraja at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > I am a beginner to haskell.
>> >
>> > I am trying to install glut using "cabal install glut"
>> > Pasting here a tail of the output
>
>> > checking for GLUT/glut.h... no
>> > configure: error: no GLUT header found, so this package cannot be  
>> built
>> > See `config.log' for more details.
>
>> >
>> > But I do have "glut.h" in my "D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw\GL".
>> >
>>
>> Define the environment variable:
>>    C_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\include\mingw
>> (you can add more directories, separate them by ';')
>> To let the linker find the libraries, define LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Hmm, that is annoying.
>
> I've filed a tracker bug here:
> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/11
>
> and also noted the issue here:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/458#comment:2
>
> Duncan
>

I am not absolutely sure, that you need to set these environment vars in  
this case, but I needed it for most packages with headers and external  
libs; this is what Raja wrote to me:

> Thank you.
>  Actually I have already set C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable with
> the right set of directories.
> Even after that error trace was occurring.
>  I was suggested that I launch cabal from msys instead of launching via
> window's cmd.exe.
> That worked. I have no explanation for that behavior.
>  regards,
> raja


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