[Haskell-cafe] Packaging Haskell Environment for Mac App

[Corey O'Connor]

How Mac implements dynamic library reference paths is documented here:

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https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dyld.1.html

For a .app containing an install of the haskell platform I would think
@executable_path should be used. I don't know how to apply that to a
haskell platform build.

Cheers,
Corey

-Corey O'Connor
coreyoconnor at gmail.com
http://corebotllc.com/


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> I would recommend avoiding anything related to pkgs or installation of any
> kind, what you really want is a relocatable (and read-only!) .app bundle
> that you can put wherever you want and it just works. The annoying part, in
> general, is making sure that nothing has hard-coded paths and for dynamic
> library references the install name is relative rather than absolute. The
> actual building of an .app bundle is a matter of putting a few files in the
> right place and creating an Info.plist file for the metadata.
>
> The next (far more annoying and perhaps not really feasible) step would be
> trying to make it work sandboxed so you could distribute it in the app
> store.
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You could perhaps adapt and pare down the Haskell platform install for
>> Mac.
>>
>> In fact, there used to be Mac pkg builder in the ghc tree until a bit
>> over a year ago
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, May 18, 2014, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you made any progress on this? I have some domain experience here;
>>> I built most of the infrastructure for packaging Python apps on Mac,
>>> although it's been years since I've touched any of that. I would be happy
>>> to pitch in now that I have a little more time on my hands.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Andrew Gibiansky <
>>> andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> [This is an xpost from Reddit, where the post<http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hct1/packaging_haskell_platform_and_ghc_api/>seems not to be showing up for some reason...]
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to package the Haskell Platform and GHC (for GHC API) together
>>>> in one bundle in order to distribute it with a Mac app. (Specifically, I am
>>>> working on a Mac app for IHaskell<https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell>,
>>>> so beginners can download that to immediately get started playing with
>>>> Haskell).
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any experience with this? What's the easiest way to do
>>>> this? My list of dependencies is fairly long:
>>>>
>>>>    - Haskell Platform (well, all packages in it)
>>>>    - A few other packages installed via cabal
>>>>    - A native library (libzmq); cabal packages depend on it
>>>>    - Functioning Python > 2.6ish
>>>>    - GHC API
>>>>
>>>> My current best idea is to package this all in a Virtualbox VM. I need
>>>> to run a server that my Mac app client can use, so mount shared folders in
>>>> the VM so that the VM can read/write to disk and expose some ports from the
>>>> VM. If this is the best solution, what Linux distro would you suggest to
>>>> use in the VM? I'd want something very lightweight.
>>>>
>>>> I've also considered using Docker somehow, as IHaskell is already
>>>> packaged with a Dockerfile. However, I'm not sure how I'd package docker so
>>>> that its all doable via a single Mac app install.
>>>>
>>>> Ideas? Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! I know this isn't *directly* related to Haskell, but I'm
>>>> hoping someone here has experience packaging Haskell applications.
>>>>
>>>> -- Andrew Gibiansky
>>>>
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