RE: Help wanted! Win32 and HGL for GHC on Windows
| | * The libraries/HGL package works fine on Unix, where it sits on top | | of the libraries/X11 package. But it does not work properly on | | Windows, where it sits on top of libraries/Win32. It is not clear | | whether the problem is with the HGL package or the Win32 package. | | As usual I am unable to find the time to look more carefully at this so | please pass this report on to whomever is dealing with HGL. | | I haven't heard what problems others have found but here is what I just | experienced. | | ...snip... Mike: thanks for giving detailed info about what works and what doesn't with HGL and Win32. So far I have had no volunteers, so I'm afraid HGL may stay broken. If anyone is interested in helping, let me know and I'll fwd Mike's info on to you. Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Help wanted! Win32 and HGL for GHC on Windows
Dear GHC users This is an appeal for help with the libraries/Win32 package [on Windows, obviously] libraries/HGL package [on Windows] Here's the situation: * Win32 provides access to the native Windows API, which is obviously very useful for people writing Haskell on Windows. HGL, the Haskell Graphics Library, is the graphics package used by Paul Hudak's book The Haskell School of Expression. * The libraries/Win32 package is supposed to supercede the old hslibs win32 package. Ross Paterson ported the latter to become the former, but the libraries/Win32 package had not received very much testing, and Ross can't do any more himself. We aren't confident that it's reliable. (Sadly, the two packages have the same name (modulo case) which has given rise to much confusion. But that's another matter.) * The libraries/HGL package works fine on Unix, where it sits on top of the libraries/X11 package. But it does not work properly on Windows, where it sits on top of libraries/Win32. It is not clear whether the problem is with the HGL package or the Win32 package. So the current situation is that, for GHC on Windows, the new hierarchical libraries world lacks (a) a reliable Win32 package and (b) a HGL package that works at all. This is sad, especially as we are trying to nuke hsllibs altogether. Question: would anyone be willing to fix the libraries/Win32 package; and (better still) look after it thereafter? We'd be delighted to give commit rights to anyone who was willing to do this. [So far as we know the two libraries/ packages work ok in Hugs, so there probably isn't that much to do.] Many thanks Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: Help wanted! Win32 and HGL for GHC on Windows
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 09:20 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Dear GHC users This is an appeal for help with the libraries/Win32 package [on Windows, obviously] libraries/HGL package [on Windows] Here's the situation: * Win32 provides access to the native Windows API, which is obviously very useful for people writing Haskell on Windows. HGL, the Haskell Graphics Library, is the graphics package used by Paul Hudak's book The Haskell School of Expression. Well for the special case of the SOE library I have a re-implementation of it based on Gtk+/cairo which should work on all platforms. Another advantage is that it looks nicer when implemented with cairo: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/SOE-cairo.png HGL implementation vs Gtk/cairo implementation If people actually use the rest of the HGL then this doesn't help. I'm planning either to bundle this module with the next Gtk2Hs release or release it as a seperate Cabal package. Duncan ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: Help wanted! Win32 and HGL for GHC on Windows
Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 11:28 schrieb Duncan Coutts: [...] Well for the special case of the SOE library I have a re-implementation of it based on Gtk+/cairo which should work on all platforms. [...] Which additional stuff would one have to install on an e.g. off-the-shelf SuSE Linux distribution or Win2k to use your SOE version? If the answer is not none, then there is a good point in making HGL work on plain X11 *and* Win32. :-) Cheers, S. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
