[Haskell-cafe] GLfloat on a Mac

[Thomas Davie]

On 12 Aug 2008, at 16:55, Conor McBride wrote:

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> On 12 Aug 2008, at 11:27, Conor McBride wrote:
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>> On 12 Aug 2008, at 11:19, Jules Bean wrote:
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>>> FWIW, I use ghc on my G4 and I got it by compiling from MacPorts.
>>>
>>> It took the best part of  day, but the resulting binary works.
>>
>> I'm not sure whirl is the right word, but I'll give it one anyway.
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> After a very long time, it fell over with a large error message that
> I don't understand.
>
> Somehow, I'll get over it.
>
> I can't help thinking that this stuff shouldn't be hard. And yet it
> is. Sorry to anyone for whom this is just spam, and much gratitude
> to clued in people who can tell me in which particular way I'm being
> an idiot at the moment.
>
> All the best
>
> Conor

FWIW my experience is that my experience of getting GHC running on a  
Mac got dramatically better as soon as I bought an Intel based mac.   
Firstly the compile times are *vastly* reduced (we're talking from 24  
hours to 1 hour, or even 20 minutes on a Mac Pro).  Secondly, and more  
importantly, more people seem to have intel macs, and are willing to  
devote their time to getting it working nicely on them, so in general,  
you tell it to build once, and it works.

Bob