[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Adam Bergmark]

Nice, thanks for doing this!

I'll make sure to try this next time i need to install GHC.

- Adam




On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> After seeing some demand for packaged Haskell for Mac for the IHaskell
> project and by word of mouth at BayHac I decided to take a stab at it. Here
> you go:
> http://ghcformacosx.github.io/ (currently GHC 7.8.2 and cabal-install
> 1.20.0.1)
>
> Why?
>
> It can be a bit cumbersome to use the GHC builds from haskell.org on Mac,
> because they don't come "fully baked", you have to ./configure
> --prefix=/some/path to get them installed and the installation is not
> relocatable, if you move it the scripts will break and the package.conf.d
> files will go stale. It also doesn't ship with cabal-install, which is
> cumbersome as well, especially for new users.
>
> How does it work?
>
> In https://github.com/ghcformacosx/ghc-dot-app I have a Main.hs script
> which downloads/builds/etc. all of the prerequisites. Then it patches the
> shell scripts to use a path relative to themselves (after following
> symlinks) rather than hard-coding an installation location. It also patches
> the package.conf.d files to use ${pkgroot} relative paths.
>
> Separately, there's an Xcode project that includes all of the metadata to
> make it look like a real Mac app bundle (icons, Info.plist) and a small
> Cocoa application that has a button to open the docs and provides
> instructions for adding it to the PATH in .bashrc. Due to the heuristics in
> Mac OS X's man, this will automatically make man pages work as well. Using
> Xcode here also makes it produce a signed build (which I do, since I am
> already paying for the $99/year license).
>
> -bob
>
>
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