Re: error when making the hdirect

Thanks for pointing this out. I've checked in a workaround to
TypeLib.idl

--sigbjorn

Mauro La Salete Costa Lima de Araujo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I have just downloaded the fptools with the purpose of use the
> hdirect. But when I execute a "make boot; make" in the hdirect
> directory in the middle of the compile process I get the following
> error: 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ==fptools== make all - --unix -r;
>  in /cygdrive/c/haskell/fptools/hdirect/comlib
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.0.1/bin/ghc -H16m -O  -fvia-C  -package-name com
> -package
> lang -I../lib -DCOM -fglasgow-exts -fvia-C -static -c TypeLib.hs -o
> TypeLib.o  -
> ohi TypeLib.hi
> 
> TypeLib.hs:2291:
>     Couldn't match `IUnknown i0' against `()'
>         Expected type: Ptr (IID (IUnknown i0))
>         Inferred type: Ptr (IID ())
>     In the fourth argument of `prim_TypeLib_createInstance', namely
>         `riid'
>     In a lambda abstraction:
>         \ riid
>             -> prim_TypeLib_createInstance methPtr iptr pUnkOuter riid
> ppvObj
> make[1]: *** [TypeLib.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> 
> The steps that I used were:
> 
> 
> -> "autoreconf" in the fptools directory
> -> "./configure" in the fptools directory
> -> "make boot; make" in the alex directory
> -> "make boot; make" in the happy directory
> -> "make boot; make" in the hdirect directoty
> 
> Can anyone help me? I'm just following a tutorial in:
> 
> http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/vhs/howto-tarball.html
>