[Haskell-cafe] Ease of Haskell development on OS X?

[Jeff Heard]

That one doesn't work with OpenGL, however and won't in the forseeable
future.    Incidentally, just now doing a ports install gtk2hs gives
me the following error on my brand new MacBook:

$ sudo port install gtk2hs

... stuff happens normally ... then:

opt/local/bin/ghc +RTS -RTS -c tools/hierarchyGen/TypeGen.hs -o
tools/hierarchyGen/TypeGen.o -O -itools/hierarchyGen -package-conf
package.conf.inplace -hide-all-packages -package base
package.conf.inplace: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
/opt/local/bin/ghc +RTS -RTS -c tools/callbackGen/HookGenerator.hs -o
tools/callbackGen/HookGenerator.o -O -I. -itools/callbackGen
-package-conf package.conf.inplace -hide-all-packages -package base
package.conf.inplace: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
rm -rf glib/System/Glib.o glib/System/Glib_split/; mkdir -p
glib/System/Glib_split
/opt/local/bin/ghc +RTS -RTS -split-objs -c glib/System/Glib.hs -o
glib/System/Glib.o -O -fffi -iglib -package-conf package.conf.inplace
-hide-all-packages -ignore-package glib -package base -package-name
glib-0.9.13 '-#include<glib-object.h>' -I/opt/local/include/glib-2.0
-I/opt/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/local/include

on the commandline:
    Warning: -fffi is deprecated: use -XForeignFunctionInterface or
pragma {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface#-} instead
package.conf.inplace: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
make[1]: *** [glib/System/Glib.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ross Mellgren <rmm-haskell at z.odi.ac> wrote:
> While there is not a .dmg for Gtk2Hs, you can use a .dmg installed GHC with
> a .dmg installed Gtk, and then build gtk2hs straight on top of that, without
> having to deal with the dual-GHC macports mess..
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2hs#Using_the_GTK.2B_OS_X_Framework
>
> -Ross
>
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Jeff Heard wrote:
>
>> cabal-install works for me.  The one thing that would be REALLY REALLY
>> nice (and I'm cc-ing Duncan on this) is a .dmg for Gtk2Hs on Mac OS X.
>> There exists a ports build for it, but it won't use the GHC that is
>> installed via .dmg to build it - it insists instead on installing ghc
>> again via ports, which I find both odd and undesirable.  It really
>> comes down to the fact that gtk2hs is the only thing in the
>> haskellverse that requires ports to get compiled in an intuitive way.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> tom.davie:
>>>>
>>>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:46, Don Stewart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> tom.davie:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:08, Don Stewart wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> tom.davie:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Other than chose the graphics card carefully, an iMac will do you
>>>>>>>> very well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is very useful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could the Mac users add information (and screenshots?) to the OSX
>>>>>>> wiki
>>>>>>> page,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/OSX
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not really sure there's much to add.  It mostly just works™.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there something that can be extracted from this discussion to add
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Imagine you're new to Haskell, or the Mac. What do you need to know to
>>>>> get started developing new Haskell software? Is that information on
>>>>> the
>>>>> page?
>>>>
>>>> Thankfully, yes, all you need to know are either (a) go to haskell.org
>>>> and download it, or (b) download macports, and port install ghc... Now
>>>> you've got a Haskell environment like any other.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I could add a chunk of text about good editors, but I'm not sure
>>>> if that's suitable, is it?
>>>
>>> Yes, anything that is relevant to the development experience on this
>>> platform. Remember: it is more than just getting ghc. How do they get
>>> hold of new libraries and apps? Is cabal-install available?
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