Installing HGraphics

Installing HGraphics - step by step

1 - Install Cygwin (this step is only for windows)

Cygwin is a UNIX environment for Windows.

1.1 - download and excecute the setup.exe

It is necessary set some envaiorment variables

On windows just type, for example:

        c:\win2k>path = d:\cygwin\usr\ghc\bin;%path%;.
        c:\win2k>set SHELL = d:\cygwin\bin\sh
        c:\win2k>set MAKE_MODE = UNIX
        c:\win2k>set TMPDIR = d:\cygwin\tmp
        c:\win2k>set HOME = d:\cygwin\home\edson

2 - Install ghc (glasgow haskell compiler)

3 - Install greencard

Green Card is a foreign function interface preprocessor for Haskell.

3.1 - It does not necessary install all greencard.

It does work if you only put the binary file into your path enviorment variable.

4 - Install HOpenGL

HOpenGL is a Haskell binding for the OpenGL graphics API (GL 1.2 / GLU 1.1) and the

portable OpenGL utility toolkit GLUT.

4.1 if you are installing on cygwin take a look in

5 - and finally Install the HGraphics

Download and unzip the hgraphics.zip

edit the Makefile (it is in the zipfile) to look at the right place the folows variables