Re: GL utilities, toolkits, and questions..
Manuel M T Chakravarty <[email protected]>
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Nick Name <[email protected]> wrote, > > > Is this a good moment, or should I wait for FFI? > > > > If we believe the marketing hype, ghc-5.04.1 will have what > > it takes, and the FFI spec is stable (they say..). > > Yes, but (as far as I know) ghc's FFI is not implemented in other > haskell systems (or am I wrong?). I mean, is there a standardized way to > call foreign code? Am I wrong? GHC 5.04 implements the proposed standard FFI. Hugs is currently being brought in line by Alastair Reid and nhc98 has it on its todo list. This is as close to a standard as you'll get at the moment. For anything OpenGL related, I would recommend to take exactly the same route as Sven has done. Consistency is good! Cheers, Manuel