That post is by David Sankel (camior on #haskell), not by me.<br><br>My last name has two "t"s.<br><br>Good luck, - Conal (Elliott)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garious@gmail.com">garious@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> $ cabal install OpenGL<br>
<br>
HOpenGL installs easily with cabal-install, but most HOpenGL examples<br>
and tutorials also use GLUT, which is not so painless on Windows.<br>
Luckily Conal Elliot just recently posted detailed instructions of how<br>
to do it:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://netsuperbrain.com/blog/posts/freeglut-windows-hopengl-hglut/" target="_blank">http://netsuperbrain.com/blog/posts/freeglut-windows-hopengl-hglut/</a><br>
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-Greg<br>
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Don Stewart <<a href="mailto:dons@galois.com">dons@galois.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ninegua:<br>
>> Hi everyone,<br>
>><br>
>> It's sad to see the OpenGL binding being dropped from GHC binary<br>
>> installers starting from 6.10. Though this issue has been brought up<br>
>> and discussed before, I'm sure a lot of people who based their work on<br>
>> OpenGL would share the same sympathy.<br>
><br>
> $ cabal install OpenGL<br>
><br>
>> I'm not here to argue whether this decision by GHC dev team is right<br>
>> or wrong, but what's really causing the pain is that the OpenGL<br>
>> binding doesn't have its own binary installer for Windows, and<br>
>> compilation from source on this platform is non-trivial. I wouldn't<br>
>> recommend doing it for ordinary users.<br>
><br>
>> So my question is, are we going to see a binary installer for OpenGL<br>
>> binding provided separately from either HOpenGL site, or Hackage? Or<br>
>> even the GHC installation page?<br>
><br>
> This would be a job for the Windows distribution team to sort out.<br>
> Each other distro addresses the native packaging problem by developing<br>
> packages, and what is needed for a similar team for Windows, to provide<br>
> Windows packages.<br>
><br>
> -- Don<br>
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