The OpenAL binding's wiki page directs questions to Haskell-Cafe, but the
more serious of my problems seems to be with GHC. My platform is GHC 6.10.1
under Windows XP. This post boils down to two questions. First, why would
GHCi and GHC look for different symbol names when linking, and second, has
anybody had any success working with the OpenAL binding on Windows?
If I write a program that uses Sound.OpenAL, I can load and run it in GHCi.
If I try to compile the same program with ghc --make -lopenal32 audio.hs, I
get a raft of errors like this:
Linking audio.exe ...
C:\Program
Files\Haskell\OpenAL-1.3.1.1\ghc-6.10.1/libHSOpenAL-1.3.1.1.a(BufferInternal.o):fake:(.text+0x5d):
undefined reference to `alIsBuffer'
C:\Program
Files\Haskell\OpenAL-1.3.1.1\ghc-6.10.1/libHSOpenAL-1.3.1.1.a(Context.o):fake:(.text+0x7d):
undefined reference to `alcGetContextsDevice'
C:\Program
Files\Haskell\OpenAL-1.3.1.1\ghc-6.10.1/libHSOpenAL-1.3.1.1.a(Context.o):fake:(.text+0xcd):
undefined reference to `alcMakeContextCurrent'
The names do not exist in openal32.lib. They should all be preceded by an
underscore. GHC does the same thing if I convert the .lib file to a .a
file. But why would GHCi do the right thing and GHC do the wrong thing? Am
I missing a command line switch? I manually changed configure and
configure.ac, per the patches (why weren't those applied to the library in
Hackage?) to use ccall since OpenAL uses ccall instead of stdcall. Was
there another change I should have made?
The other problem is that several routines don't work properly because the
constants don't get fixed up correctly during the build process. For
example, the function marshalFormat in Sound.OpenAL.AL.Format should return
0x1100 when given Word8 as a parameter. It returns -1 instead; the code
tells it to, but I assume some sed-like command was supposed to patch that
with the right value. Has anybody had any luck getting this to work?
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