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

[Jeff Heard]

As this continues to build, I guess the issue for me, and I'm willing
to help with it, is trying to figure out how to redistribute programs
written with gtk2hs.  on Windows, people can just install the gtk2hs
libraries via the installer -- although this does bork a little
because it assumes you have a haskell compiler on the machine.
Ignoring the errors, however, works.  I don't see a similar situation
on Mac OS.

If I wanted to package an application, which I often do, because
firefighters, police officers, and emergency managers (my research
currently targets these people, and we're actually beginning to really
deploy our apps) don't have the time nor inclination to compile
programs on their machines, I can basically just hope they're running
windows. It'd be nice if there was a binary "redistributable" on
windows that doesn't generate errors because of no haskell compiler
installed and a similar package on OS X that includes the X11 Gtk
binaries and precompiled Gtk2Hs binaries.

I guess I just don't know yet how to package things for OS X or find
everything I'd need to find to build a redistributable image in the
first place.  I haven't yet drunk the coolade on the whole Mac
development process, having sidestepped the normal process by being a
Haskell developer.  I'm sure they have standard procedures for finding
and packaging libraries.

-- Jeff

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ross Mellgren <rmm-haskell at z.odi.ac> wrote:
> Ah, true. Sorry, my mistake -- I forgot that wasn't supported with the
> framework version.
>
> -Ross
>
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Jeff Heard wrote:
>
>> 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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