#1917: 6.8.1 windows installer doesn't include GLUT
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Reporter: guest | Owner: simonmar
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Changes (by igloo):
* owner: => simonmar
* difficulty: => Unknown
* type: bug => task
Comment:
Replying to [comment:3 Orphi]:
> I'd be interested to know whether this change is accidental or
deliberate.
It's accidental.
> Either way, something has changed and it should be documented in the
release notes. Even if we decide to do nothing else, we should document
the change.
GLUT is an extralib, and extralibs are not part of the release; we just
bundle them in some of the binary builds for convenience. The release
notes don't mention them, and as far as GHC is concerned there has been no
change.
In GHC 6.10 I think it would be a good idea to (automatically) build
separate Windows installers for the extralibs (instead of bundling them in
the GHC installer), to help clarify the situation, and so that users can
pick and choose what they want more easily. Hopefully this would be a
stepping stone to someone implementing a more general solution, for all
the packages on hackage.
The reason GLUT hasn't been included seems to be that the C GLUT libraries
aren't installed on the machine that builds the Windows binaries, so I'm
assigning this to Simon Marlow. Simon, can you either install the C
libraries or close this bug as wontfix please?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1917#comment:5>
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