ghc-ios 7.8 working build

[Dominick Samperi]

Thanks Luke,

It inserted a GUI component just to be sure that the app with Haskell embedded
is running properly, and I'm happy to report that it is.

I could not get Apple Configurator do show the app console log, and several
apps that used to provide this service were broken by recent Apple updates.
I tried reading the socket syslog.sock (on the device), but apparently app
console logs are not sent here.

I guess I need to join the developer program to do simple things
like read logs.

Dominick

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dominick,
>
> Awesome. Sounds like everything's working perfectly : ). The 'has no
> symbols' messages are normal and harmless; I think they can be fixed but in
> the meantime there is a script in ghc-ios-scripts called "libtool-quiet"
> that silences them. You can use it by adding  -pgmlibtool libtool-quiet to
> your GHC arguments.
>
> The output just goes to the iPhone's console which is normally shown in
> Xcode when you run, but you can also access it with Apple's "iPhone
> Configurator" app.
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-configurator/id434433123?mt=12 .
>
> (You could also modify the example to return e.g. an Int and put that on the
> screen with a UILabel or similar -- you can call Haskell from anywhere in
> your app as long as you've called hs_init at the very beginning. A nice
> trick is to create an NSObject category with a + (void)load { hs_init(NULL,
> NULL) } method, which will ensure hs_init is called very early in your
> program and then you don't have to worry about it anymore.)
>
> Thanks so much for testing!
> Cheers
> Luke
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> [Luke: forgot to forward to list, sorry for the duplicates]
>>
>> There are two issues:
>>
>> 1. When I build Counter.a I see lots of messages from libtool saying
>> "has no symbols",
>>     for example:
>>
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool:
>> for architecture: armv7s file:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10-ghc-7.8.20140129/rts-1.0/libHSrts_thr.a(Sanity.thr_o)
>> has no symbols
>>
>> 2. I have not (yet) joined the developer program since I have no plans to
>> deploy
>>     to the app store, so instead I have been following the
>> instructions here to deploy
>>     to my own device:
>>
>> http://www.sysrage.net/guides/ios-programming/building-and-running-ios-applications-without-a-paid-developer-license
>>
>> Following these instructions I am able to copy  HaskellCounter (my name
>> for
>> your test app) to my device, and I see the HaskellCounter icon, but when I
>> start the app I just see a blank screen. Looking at
>>
>> Counter.hs this is not too surprising, as I see no code that would update
>> the
>> Single View screen? I'm not sure where the output of putStrLn goes when
>> an app is run on the device.
>>
>> Dominick
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Dominick and all,
>> >
>> > That's great news!
>> >
>> > I've created a README here:
>> > https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/blob/master/README.md
>> >
>> > Note that the binary posted above is only for the device. I'll post the
>> > simulator version shortly along with instructions on how to create fat
>> > libraries that contain both simulator and device code.
>> >
>> > Please let me know if you have any questions or issues!
>> >
>> > Very best
>> > Luke
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello Luke,
>> >>
>> >> It installed without problems under Mac OS X Mavericks and reports the
>> >> version correctly. If there is some documentation that you can point me
>> >> to
>> >> I will test on my simulator and iPhone.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Dominick
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I believe I've worked around the issues with make binary-dist and
>> >> > cross-compilation.
>> >> >
>> >> > This should be a working binary for iOS devices
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/releases/download/7.8-rc1-device/ghc-7.8.20140129-arm-apple-ios.tar.bz2
>> >> >
>> >> > Please try ./configure && make install (it should live happily next
>> >> > to
>> >> > your
>> >> > current ghc as arm-apple-darwin10-ghc) and let me know so we can have
>> >> > a
>> >> > build ready for 7.8 RC2!
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers
>> >> > Luke
>> >> >
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