[Haskell-cafe] Cairo build fail on OS X Leapord

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:10 -0500, Jefferson Heard wrote:
> how can we use those from MacPorts?  Is it possible?

Either use macports to downgrade to an older version of the cairo C lib,
or grab the darcs version of gtk2hs and try that. If macports only
supports has one version of a lib at once (I seem to recall someone
saying that's the case) then you'll have to pick the second option.

Duncan

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 14:55 -0400, Jefferson Heard wrote:
> >> Installing gtk2hs from MacPorts on a clean mac:
> >
> >> svgcairo/Graphics/Rendering/Cairo/SVG.chs:201:2:
> >>     Couldn't match expected type `()' against inferred type `CInt'
> >
> > The latest major release of the cairo C lib changed the API to return an
> > int status code for a C function that previously returned void.
> >
> > c2hs guarantees us some degree of cross-language type safety and caught
> > this api change for us (by turning it into a Haskell type error).
> >
> > I expect the updates to work with the new cairo api are in the gtk2hs
> > darcs version.