#6: Windows installer
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Reporter: duncan|Owner: refold
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: major |Milestone: Release 1: 2009.0.0
Component: Platform |
#6: Windows installer
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Reporter: duncan|Owner: refold
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: major |Milestone: Release 1: 2009.0.0
Component: Platform |
Hello Mikhail,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 5:00:09 PM, you wrote:
>> btw, HP installer creates "Start menu/Haskell Platform/6.10.2" menu. may
>> be it should be "Start menu/Haskell Platform/2009.0.0"?
> The default value is "GHC/6.10.2" - I assume that you
> changed "GHC" to "Haskell Platform" ma
Hi Bulat,
Bulat Ziganshin writes:
> afair, ghc installs any version to "program files/ghc", successfully
> overwriting previous one. if we want to support multiple ghc versions
> installation, we shouldn't duplicate this behavior.
Nope, it uses $SYSTEMDRIVE\GHC\ghc-${GHC_VERSION} by default.
Q
Hello Duncan,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 3:10:18 PM, you wrote:
> There is no problem with it being run from a directory with spaces. The
> only problem is building it with a --prefix set to a dir with spaces, or
> if the source tarball is in a dir with spaces. The existing installers
> for ghc i
Hi Duncan,
> I think as far as possible we should be consistent with the existing ghc
> installer.
Yes, that was my intent.
> And I think the existing ghc installer puts this directory (or perhaps
> it's the /bin subdir) on the %PATH%.
Yes, we also do that.
> > I decided to use $SYSTEMDRIVE\g
Hi Duncan,
Duncan Coutts writes:
> > * Installed files are not tracked precisely (we use the Windows
> > analogue of rm -rf, which is a bit unsafe).
>
> Oh, so NSIS doesn't do uninstall?
It does, but it's a bit tricky:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Advanced_Uninstall_Log_NSIS_Header
I hope t
#12: OpenAL doesn't work on Windows (without some tinkering)
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Reporter: refold |Owner: SvenPanne
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major |Milestone:
Component: OpenAL
Hi Duncan,
2009/4/22 Duncan Coutts :
> Really? Oh, I was under the impression that OpenAL never worked on
> Windows because it was using the wrong calling convention:
>
> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/12
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in that ticket. OpenAL works
on Windows
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:34 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi Bulat,
>
> Bulat Ziganshin writes:
>
> > 1) afair, you use nsis? installer size too large, adding this line to
> > .nsi should make it twice smaller:
> >
> > SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
>
> Thanks, I'll use that!
>
> > 2) i propo
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:42 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The beta version of the Windows installer is ready and can be
> downloaded from
>
> http://code.haskell.org/~refold/HaskellPlatform-2009.0.0-setup.exe
>
> Please test and report any bugs you encounter.
Good work Mikhail!
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:20 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> Duncan Coutts writes:
>
> > We are inclined to drop OpenAL from this first release of the platform.
> > The rationale is that we cannot use the released version because there
> > are bugs preventing it from working on
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:27 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Ian,
>
> Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:12:25 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I don't think existing HP libraries should be exempt from new
> > requirements in future HP releases. Either they should be fixed to meet
> > the requirements, or the
Hi Bulat,
Bulat Ziganshin writes:
> 1) afair, you use nsis? installer size too large, adding this line to
> .nsi should make it twice smaller:
>
> SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
Thanks, I'll use that!
> 2) i propose to make default installation directory both for ghc and
> extra libs the same, som
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:12 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11:57AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> >
> > though we will hopefully be setting the bar a little higher for new
> > packages compared to the "extra libs" which get a bit of a free ride.
>
> I don't think existing HP
Hello Ian,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:12:25 PM, you wrote:
> I don't think existing HP libraries should be exempt from new
> requirements in future HP releases. Either they should be fixed to meet
> the requirements, or they are not being maintained adequately and should
> be removed from the H
Hi Duncan,
Duncan Coutts writes:
> We are inclined to drop OpenAL from this first release of the platform.
> The rationale is that we cannot use the released version because there
> are bugs preventing it from working on Windows and OSX. We could, at
> very short notice, tag and release the darc
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11:57AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
> though we will hopefully be setting the bar a little higher for new
> packages compared to the "extra libs" which get a bit of a free ride.
I don't think existing HP libraries should be exempt from new
requirements in future HP re
Hello Mikhail,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:42:17 AM, you wrote:
> The beta version of the Windows installer is ready and can be
> downloaded from
so:
1) afair, you use nsis? installer size too large, adding this line to
.nsi should make it twice smaller:
SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
2) i propo
Hi Bulat,
Bulat Ziganshin writes:
> > * Installed files are not tracked precisely (we use the Windows
> > analogue of rm -rf, which is a bit unsafe).
>
> are you use NSIS? i solved this problem by making list of all files
> after installation and then including it into .nsi file
Yep, there a
Folks,
The two changes below have not yet been made in the
haskell-platform.cabal file or reflected on the wiki pages. This is an
advance warning.
OpenAL
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We are inclined to drop OpenAL from this first release of the platform.
The rationale is that we cannot use the released version becaus
> The beta version of the Windows installer is ready
Excellent. Tested on XP SP2, everything seems to work fine.
Now I'm finally able to make OpenGL programs in Haskell :)
Tested the Gears.hs example from
http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/GLUT/examples/Misc/
, which worked fine.
Keep up the go
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