Clifford In the next few days we'll release GHC 5.02. The Windows version of that will not require any version of cygwin; it comes complete, and you don't need to install anything else to make it work. (Nor does it mind if you have some version of cygwin installed, a surprisingly difficult criterion to satisfy, given Window's DLL story.) So I suggest you wait a few days. I do mean days and not weeks! (There is a slightly experimental Windows binary download you can try meanwhile; I enclose the message announcing it.) I'm not certain whether HOpen/GL has 'caught up' to GHC 5.02, but I'm sure it will shortly, and any differences will be of the trivial kind. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Clifford Beshers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 14 September 2001 04:14 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: ghc/HopenGL/cygwin/W2K | | | | | I'm trying to get to the point where I can use ghc and OpenGL | under Windows 2000. Unfortunately, I'm lost in a maze of | version numbers. | | I had cygwin-1.3.2 installed, I think, which did not match | the 1.3.1 used in the ghc-4.08 package. I tried to install | cygwin 1.3.1, but got 1.3.3 instead. Nowhere can I find a | course for 1.3.1. Nor can I find 5.00.2 compiled for | Windows, though there is some mention of W2K support in the | documentation. | | Can anyone provide me with a recent road map? I don't mind | compiling everything, if that's what it takes, I just feel | I'm wandering in the wilderness. | | Thanks, | | Clifford Beshers | | | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-| haskell-users |
I've updated the test Windows InstallShield of GHCi 5.01 available from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/5.00.2/ghc-5-01.exe (There's no link to it on the web site) In case you missed the previous announcement, this is a test release, but seems fairly stable (I use it all the time). It has the following features: * GHCi: now you can use GHC interpretively under Windows. You can just run the InstallShield, and double-click on GHCi to get going. * Complete install: everything you need to use GHC is included; Cygwin is no longer required; also, unlike recent 4.08.2 releases, it doesn't interfere with any Cygwin installation you may already have Changes from the previous test release, "Zarjaz": * Now installs in Program Files by default (supports paths containing spaces). * Installs the profiling libraries and imports (the previous test release included them, but for mysterious reasons they weren't actually installed). Also note that as one user found, the supplied gcc doesn't like identifiers containing top-bit-set characters, so if you want to use them you must use the native code generator. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
