[Haskell] Re: H/Direct (HaskellDirect) still maintained?

[Simon Marlow]

Gracjan Polak wrote:
> 2006/9/6, Andreas Marth <Andreas-Haskell at gmx.net>:
> 
>> Hallo!
>>
>> Does anybody know if H/Direct (also known as HaskellDirect) is still
>> maintained?
> 
> 
> Doesn't seem to be...
> 
> You might want to look for thread "Haskell to call Microsoft COM
> (Dispatch)" in haskell-cafe archive. Marc Weber was able to create a
> script that compiled HDirect and it worked for me. Then I moved onto
> other things and don't know how to compile it now :(

You might want to look at

   http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell/comlib/

this is a derivative of the comlib that comes with H/Direct.  It's the one we're 
using in Visual Haskell for calling COM.  We're doing much of our COM 
interaction manually via comlib now, because we reached the limits of what 
H/Direct was able to cope with in various ways.  Also you should find that the 
version of comlib above compiles out of the box with recent GHC versions.

Cheers,
	Simon