[Haskell-cafe] Self-contained GHC for Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

That's certainly technically possible

On Saturday, May 24, 2014, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's really cool. Is there some way that a CI task could be set up
> to automatically publish new versions?
>
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Carter Schonwald
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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