Re: [Haskell-cafe] libSDL [Tetris]
Bit Connor wrote: Hello Andrew, ...yep, configure fails because it can't find sh. (Again.) This error can safely be ignored on windows. Apparently so. (A bit confusing then, no?) I'm rather loathed to install a Unix emulator just so I can install things from Hackage. cygwin is not required to build hsSDL on windows. Glad to hear it. :-) By the way, it turns out that SDL at least comes with a little text file explaining how to build it on Windows. (I overlooked this the first time.) Sadly, after following the instructions I still can't build it. The changes it told me to make didn't seem to have any effect. (And manually editing configuration files and C headers isn't my idea of a good time anyway...) What error are you getting? Many pages of them. Mostly about undefined symbols. I've deleted all the files now; I'll maybe have another go at it later so I can tell you the exact error. The next version of hsSDL (or current darcs) will not require editing of C headers. Good. :-) Editing the cabal config file is necessary so that the SDL include files and libs can be found. ...because Windows uses DLLs instead of [whatever it is that Unix does]? Out of curiosity, is there a reason I'm trying to compile the code myself in the first place? Is it just because that's the Unix way, or is there some deep reason why we can't just download prebuilt binaries? I am in favour of the idea of providing prebuilt binaries. Do you think something like the gtk2hs windows installer would be good? Gtk2hs is certainly drop-dead easy to install, no doubt about that. (Modulo some tricky path fiddling if you install Glade seperately as well... but that's no fault of the Haskell package.) Personally, given how tricky it generally is to build *most* things from source code (you have to have all the right tools to do it), I'd prefer to see *all* packages available in binary form. However, I guess the number of packages and possible target platforms makes this prohibitive... ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] libSDL [Tetris]
On Nov 22, 2007 9:39 PM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Editing the cabal config file is necessary so that the SDL include files and libs can be found. ...because Windows uses DLLs instead of [whatever it is that Unix does]? The reason is that on Unix, there are standard location for header files and libraries. On windows, they can be anywhere, and in the case of SDL, they are inside the directory where SDL was installed. Out of curiosity, is there a reason I'm trying to compile the code myself in the first place? Is it just because that's the Unix way, or is there some deep reason why we can't just download prebuilt binaries? I am in favour of the idea of providing prebuilt binaries. Do you think something like the gtk2hs windows installer would be good? Gtk2hs is certainly drop-dead easy to install, no doubt about that. (Modulo some tricky path fiddling if you install Glade seperately as well... but that's no fault of the Haskell package.) Personally, given how tricky it generally is to build *most* things from source code (you have to have all the right tools to do it), I'd prefer to see *all* packages available in binary form. However, I guess the number of packages and possible target platforms makes this prohibitive... On GNU/Linux it is usually not tricky at all to build things from source, and a lot of people prefer it over installing binaries. I do agree that binary packages should be available for windows. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] libSDL [Tetris]
Radosław Grzanka wrote: 2007/11/20, Bit Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GLUT should work fine on windows, but another alternative is SDL, which works on Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac The haskell bindings are here: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/SDL-0.5.1 Last time I checked it I couldn't compile it. But I see the version number has gone up much since that! Cool. I will give it a shot! I'm pretty sure I've tried to install this before and failed. Let me go check... ...yep, configure fails because it can't find sh. (Again.) It's a pitty - it looks like you can do sound with SDL, and that's something which greatly interests me. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] libSDL [Tetris]
Jorge Marques Pelizzoni wrote: Andrew Coppin escreveu: ...yep, configure fails because it can't find sh. (Again.) You are probably not using cygwin, are you? I mean, it includes sh and should get you going. Just make sure to check all you need in the cygwin setup. I'm rather loathed to install a Unix emulator just so I can install things from Hackage. By the way, it turns out that SDL at least comes with a little text file explaining how to build it on Windows. (I overlooked this the first time.) Sadly, after following the instructions I still can't build it. The changes it told me to make didn't seem to have any effect. (And manually editing configuration files and C headers isn't my idea of a good time anyway...) Out of curiosity, is there a reason I'm trying to compile the code myself in the first place? Is it just because that's the Unix way, or is there some deep reason why we can't just download prebuilt binaries? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] libSDL [Tetris]
Andrew Coppin escreveu: ...yep, configure fails because it can't find sh. (Again.) You are probably not using cygwin, are you? I mean, it includes sh and should get you going. Just make sure to check all you need in the cygwin setup. Cheers, Jorge. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
