[Haskell-cafe] OS X ghci problem

[Christiaan Baaij]

Here's a binary dist of my build: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d37rij0dnvjiqqy/ghc-7.7.20130915-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
In case someone wants to confirm my findings.

Cheers,

Christiaan

On Sep 16, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Christiaan Baaij <christiaan.baaij at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I saw the same issue/crash on my machine using ghc 7.6.3.
> 
> I just build a "perf" build of GHC-head with
> "85a9e2468dc74b9e5ccde0dd61be86219fd323a2" as the latest commit.
> 
> Now running, I get:
> 1) > cabal install bindings-glfw
> 2) > ghci
> 3) ghci> :m Bindings.GLFW
> 4) ghci> Bindings.GLFW.c'glfwInit
> 5) ghci> 1
> 
> And doing:
> 1.) > cabal install GLFW-b
> 2.) > ghci -package GLFW-b
> 3.) ghci> import Graphics.UI.GLFW as GLFW
> 4.) ghci> GLFW.init
> 5.) ghci> True
> 
> My platform:
> - OSX 10.8.4
> - ghc(i) 7.7.20130915
> - cabal 1.18.0.1 (using 1.18.0 of the Cabal library)
> - xcode cltools 4.6.2
> 
> So it seems that the new ghci linking infrastructure fixes things
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On Sep 14, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Jan-Philip Loos <maxdaten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> What I do for GLFW is use a dylib, then you don't rely on GHCi's static-ish linker.
>>> The only wrinkle is figuring out where you want the dylib.
>>> I think homebrew will put one in /usr/local/lib, which works out nicely, but they don't have GLFW 3 yet.
>>> Another option is to build the dylib yourself from the GLFW source bundled with the GLFW-b package, then tell cabal where to find it.
>> 
>> Hi,
>> for me the problem relocates now to the "bindings-glfw" package, since
>> the native bindings moved to this package and are wrapped up with
>> "glfw-b".
>> 
>> My way to the same exception already mentioned by Brian Lewis:
>> 1) > cabal install bindings-glfw
>> 2) > ghci
>> 3) ghci> :m Bindings.GLFW
>> 4) ghci> Bindings.GLFW.c'glfwInit
>> 5) ghci terminates with exception: *** Terminating app due to uncaught
>> exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSAutoreleasePool
>> init]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fc443c01b30'
>> 
>> Anthony Cowley mentioned to use ghci with GLFW as a dylib, I have no
>> clue how to do this. I built the according glfw version on my own as a
>> dylib and loaded ghci with it explicitly, this didn't help. I guess
>> the compiled bindings-glfw is already statically packed up.
>> 
>> How can I get ghci to use the native glfw dylib in combination with
>> bindings-glfw? If I have to compile bindings-glfw with different
>> settings, which settings? I have some oversight over haskell but no
>> really deep knowledge according to bindings and lib-loading of ghci,
>> but I'm willing to learn it ;)
>> 
>> My Platform:
>> - OSX 10.8.5
>> - ghc(i) 7.6.3
>> - cabal 1.18.0.1
>> - xcode dev tools 4.6.3
>> 
>> Thanks and Greetings
>> 
>> Jan
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