I think the best thing to do is to darcs send a patch with the necessary changes
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Garrick Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Adding the main macro undef has solved the linker errors and both SDL_image > and SDL_ttf build and install correctly now. For both SDL_image and SDL_ttf > only the ./Graphics/UI/SDL/Image/Version.hsc file needed to be changed, > pasting in the undef macro under "#include SDL_image.h" and "#include > SDL_ttf.h" respectively. Thanks for your help! > > It would probably be a good idea to include these notes in a WIN32 file like > for the SDL package for other users. I sent an e-mail to the listed > maintainer on Hackage yesterday, is that the best way to about doing this? > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Bit Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I wrote the instructions in the WIN32 file. >> >> This looks like the same problem that I originally had with the SDL >> package, mangling of "main" function in C land by the hand of the C >> SDL.h include file. >> >> If you look at the .hsc files from the SDL package, you will see the >> fix I applied at the top of each file, after #including SDL.h the evil >> "main" macro is undefined: >> >> #include "SDL.h" >> #ifdef main >> #undef main >> #endif >> >> Probably the same must be done for all the .hsc files in SDL-image(and >> probably also all other haskell SDL addon packages). >> >> Please let me know if this information is helpful. >> >> 2008/8/27 Garrick Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm trying to build the latest SDL-image package (0.5.2) from Hackage on >> > Windows and encountering problems. These are the steps I've taken so >> > far: >> > >> > 1. Downloaded SDL 1.2.13 developmental library for Mingw32 to >> > E:\SDL-1.2.13, and SDL_image 1.2.6 developmental library for VC8 to >> > E:\SDL_image-1.2.6. >> > 2. Installed SDL package from Hackage, modifying the SDL.cabal >> > according to >> > the included WIN32 readme file and then runghc Setup.lhs >> > configure/build/install >> > 3. Downloaded the SDL-image package from Hackage, modified the >> > SDL-image.cabal file to add the line "Include-Dirs: >> > E:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL, E:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL" so Cabal can >> > find >> > the header files. After doing "runghc Setup.lhs configure", "runghc >> > Setup.lhs build -v" gives me the following output: >> > >> > Creating dist\build (and its parents) >> > Creating dist\build\autogen (and its parents) >> > Preprocessing library SDL-image-0.5.2... >> > Creating dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image (and its parents) >> > E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\hsc2hs.exe --cc=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe >> > --ld=E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe --cflag=-package --cflag=SDL-0.5.4 >> > --cflag=-package --cflag=base-3.0.1.0 >> > --cflag=-IE:\SDL_image-1.2.6\include\SDL >> > --cflag=-IE:\SDL-1.2.13\include\SDL >> > -o dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hs >> > Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version.hsc >> > E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x7):Main.c: undefined >> > reference >> > to `__stginit_ZCMain' >> > E:/ghc/ghc-6.8.2/libHSrts.a(Main.o)(.text+0x36):Main.c: undefined >> > reference >> > to `ZCMain_main_closure' >> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> > linking dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o failed >> > command was: E:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe >> > dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.o -o >> > dist\build\Graphics\UI\SDL\Image\Version_hsc_make.exe >> > >> > The results of a limited google search suggests that the >> > __stginit_ZCMain >> > linker error has to do with GHC expecting a main function, but I'm not >> > really sure how that works in context of a library. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe