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

[Ross Mellgren]

I didn't get any errors like that (nor do I remember ever having  
them), though if you want to paste them here maybe I can help with them.

-Ross

On Mar 21, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Colin Adams wrote:

> If I try this, pango fails to compile with lots of error messages
> about error: macro names must be identifiers.
>
> I think I've seen this before - some well-known Mac OSX problem? (I'm
> a linux man myself - so I'm not used to the mac)
>
> 2009/3/21 Ross Mellgren <rmm-haskell at z.odi.ac>:
>> I tried making this work, but librsvg requires pango, and pango is  
>> a huge
>> pain in the ass -- I managed to get the whole thing to compile, but  
>> now it
>> can't find any fonts, apparently due to some dynaloading issues.
>>
>> I think if you need any of the extended modules (e.g. svgcairo, gl)  
>> that the
>> DMG doesn't directly support then you're best served by shedding a  
>> couple
>> tears and going with macports.
>>
>> The steps I used to get the broken version were (FYI -- doing this  
>> causes
>> all fonts to load as the no-character square in all gtk2hs apps):
>>
>> export
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
>> Library/Frameworks/Cairo.framework/Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
>> Library/Frameworks/GLib.framework/Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
>> Library/Frameworks/Gtk.framework/Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/GLib.framework/Resources/dev/ 
>> bin
>>
>> cd pango-1.24.0
>> CFLAGS="-DFC_WEIGHT_EXTRABLACK=215" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>> make -j4
>> sudo make install
>>
>> cd librsvg-2.26.0
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>> make -j4
>> sudo make install
>>
>> cd gtk2hs-0.10.0
>> ./configure --disable-gio
>> make -j4
>> sudo make install
>>
>> Running apps linked with this version of gtk2hs gets:
>>
>> (svgviewer:43314): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found:
>> No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.
>> PangoFc will not work correctly.
>> This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
>>  '/usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules'
>> You should create this file by running:
>>  pango-querymodules > '/usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules'
>>
>> (svgviewer:43314): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font,  
>> expect ugly
>> output. engine-type='PangoRenderATSUI', script='latin'
>>
>> So if anyone knows what Pango is trying to do, maybe they could  
>> help resolve
>> this.
>>
>> I'm probably going to ditch the use of GTK in my own project and  
>> use FFI
>> bindings to Carbon/Win32, since I don't really need widgets for my  
>> own stuff
>> and the whole family of GTK related packages is a total pain in the  
>> ass (as
>> are most things in the GNU family of software, IMO)
>>
>> -Ross
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Mellgren <rmm-haskell at z.odi.ac> writes:
>>>
>>>   Ross> While there is not a .dmg for Gtk2Hs, you can use a .dmg
>>>   Ross> installed GHC with a .dmg installed Gtk, and then build
>>>   Ross> gtk2hs straight on top of that, without having to deal with
>>>   Ross> the dual-GHC macports mess..
>>>
>>>   Ross>
>>> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2hs#Using_the_GTK.2B_OS_X_Framework
>>>
>>> I just tried this.
>>>
>>> The configure enables cairo, but does not enable svgcairo. Is there
>>> anyway round this, or do I have to revert to the macports gtk? (my
>>> application uses svgcairo)
>>> --
>>> Colin Adams
>>> Preston Lancashire
>>
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