On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:24:40PM +0000, Fernand Lacas wrote: > Hello, > This is my first post on this mailing list and I hope it will not be > too off-topic. > My point is that I have worked a little on the porting of the last > (0.21) version of HDirect ([1]http://www.haskell.org/hdirect/) to ghc > 6.6. I succeeded in compiling the ihc.exe (idl compiler) but I'm now > stuck on the boot-strapping of the COM library (which is required to > have support for Automation). > This seems to come >from a new feature of the package management > system, which includes the package's name in the interface files > (.hi). > Alas, on the beginning of this new year (happy new year to you all), I > lack time to understand the cabal system to solve this. I've written > to the people mentioned in the README (and others), which are supposed > to support the library, but got no answer. I assume they are no longer > supporting it. > Thus, I simply wanted to know if someone on this list, more involved > with ghc or haskell's community, would be interested to have the > sources files so that, may be in the near future, hdirect could be up > to date with ghc, and also that other people could benefit from that > small contribution without re-inventing the wheel (my changes are not > complex, but rather tedious because I had to track all deprecated > libraries, correct a GHC-specific bug). > I also think that hdirect build process should be translated to > Cabal's setup (it currently uses Makefiles, but the build process is > not straightforward, so the adaptation requires a knowledge I do not > have of Cabal). > Sincerely yours, > Samuel > P.-S. I do not check this mail on a daily basis, so it is possible I > won't answer immediately, but within one or two days. > Excuse my french, it is my mother tongue.
Hi Samuel. I know. If you want to use hdirect with com support you need some kind of 2 stage build. I've tried to compile it some time ago and I failed (lack of knowledge and understanding haskell at that time).. So you did succeed? similar to ghc its using a 2 stage build. I will post a link to this message on cabal-devel@haskell.org avoiding cross-posting, too So we have by now 4 packagers having problems with the current cabal system? wxwidgets, gtk2hs, hdirect and ghc itself? Greetings Marc _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users