[Open-graphics] building HIDE [was Re: Google summer of code]

[Arthur Marsh]

Viktor Pracht wrote, on 2008-03-03 10:23:

> This fact inspired me to dust off my prototype and get it to compile.
> Currently, it contains little logic and consists mostly of Gtk and Cairo
> calls, so that it can be easily ported to other languages and serve as a
> starting point for the Summer of Code project. The only working
> functionality so far is the zooming with the mouse scroll wheel.
> 
> The source and a precompiled binary are available at
> http://v2os.v2.nl/~vp/hide.tgz
> The program is started from the main directory as "bin/hide". To test
> multithreaded rendering (can one even *buy* single-core desktops nowadays?)
> it can be started as "bin/hide +RTS -Nx", where x is the number of
> cores/CPUs.
> 
> Since I didn't yet figure out how to build Debian packages for Haskell
> programs, the binary may need some additional libraries. I don't have a
> fresh system to test which libraries are needed, but judging from the
> output of ldd, the packages libc6-i686, libglade2-0, libgmp3c2 and their
> dependencies in the current Debian Unstable should provide everything
> necessary. Compiling from source requires GHC and the Gtk2Hs developement
> libraries. 

On Debian unstable I was able to compile it once I added the needed 
libghc6* libraries and their dependencies. ldd reported:

libatk-1.0.so.0
libcairo.so.2
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
libexpat.so.1
libfontconfig.so.1
libfreetype.so.6
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
libglade-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0
libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libgmp.so.3
libgobject-2.0.so.0
libgthread-2.0.so.0
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
libm.so.6
libpango-1.0.so.0
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
libpcre.so.3
libpng12.so.0
libpthread.so.0
librt.so.1
libX11.so.6
libXau.so.6
libXcomposite.so.1
libXcursor.so.1
libXdamage.so.1
libXdmcp.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXfixes.so.3
libXinerama.so.1
libXi.so.6
libxml2.so.2
libXrandr.so.2
libXrender.so.1
libz.so.1

Arthur.