#2067: ALUT fails to build on Mac OS X
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Build System | Version: 6.8.2
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: ALUT, build | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: x86
Os: MacOS X |
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Comment (by guest):
The situation seems to be somewhat messier than that. If I understand the
situation correctly, Apple only removed the ALUT header files, but the
old, deprecated ALUT 1.0 code is still linked into the OpenAL framework
together with the new OpenAL 1.1 code. Now, the function names in ALUT 1.0
(linked into the framework) collide with the new ALUT 1.1 names, so one
cannot simply link with an ALUT 1.1 library (provided by Creative under
the name `freealut`, see http://openal.org/downloads.html) and the OpenAL
framework included in Mac OS X. You can change the colliding names in the
`freealut` source, which is un ugly hack; nevertheless I did that, and
managed to build this `freealut` library; however I couldn't make it work
with GHC, as the the Cabal build system of the Haskell ALUT wanted a
(nonexisting) ALUT.framework (I had a `libalut.a` or something like that
instead, as the result of the above hacking).
All in all, I think the current situation is not acceptable, at least with
ALUT being on the list of bundled libraries (of course, the main source of
the problem is Apple, but still). And while OpenAL 1.1 in theory should
work without ALUT, I couldn't make it work.
By the way, the Windows binary distribution of GHC 6.8.2 seems to
completely miss both OpenAL and ALUT.
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