[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Carter Schonwald]

i'd totally support making this prominently visible  on haskell.org



On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Kevin Nardi <knardi at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> This is really awesome, and definitely would have made my life easier the
> first time I installed GHC.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On May 23, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:
>
> 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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