[Haskell-beginners] Installing Haskell on a Mac

[Xavier Shay]

On 15/02/11 1:28 AM, Torsten Otto wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Two students in my class tried to install Haskell on their private
> MacBooks (one Leopard, one SnowLeopard). We used the package at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html. Neither of them got to
> install it as the button "Install" is greyed and not clickable.
>
> What is the best way to install GHC on a current Mac? It would not
> necessarily have to be the latest greatest.
If you are not adverse to package managers, I found brew to be painless:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
brew install ghc # I was using just this for a while
brew install haskell-platform # To get cabal and all that stuff

Cheers,
Xavier

>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
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