[Haskell] ANN: MacOSX - A library some Haskell users on OS X might find useful.

[Corey O'Connor]

Certainly! I'm currently swamped but will have time to do so in a few days.
-Corey

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> Would you like to upload the darcs repo to code.haskell.org?
>  It seems like a community effort could help improve the OS X support?
>
>  coreyoconnor:
>  >    I've been working on integrating haskell code with some Objective-C/C++
>  >    Cocoa Mac OS X applications. Nothing fancy like a Haskell/Cocoa bridge.
>  >    Just trying to get the build process smooth. The default cabal build
>  >    system was incomplete to do this effectively;* Extending XCode was no good
>  >    either. With some effort I created some Cabal build hooks to fix up the
>  >    behavior of build on OS X and add support for packaging an executable into
>  >    a ".app" package. That's not much, but I packaged it up, plus some extras,
>  >    into a library in case other projects would like to use it:
>  >    [1]http://tothepowerofdisco.com/repo/HaskellLibraries/
>  >
>  >    Of course, this is all hackish and very incomplete. EG:
>  >    * No fat binary support. I only have a PPC Mac and the only fat-binary
>  >    process usable with GHC I know of requires executing the x86 GHC.
>  >    * The build hook in MacOSX.Build will only work on the Cabal distributed
>  >    with GHC 6.6.1 and *completely* replaces the standard GHC build hook.
>  >    * GHC compiled to use the framework version of GMP installed to
>  >    /Library/Frameworks is required.
>  >    * The name is vague...
>  >    Still, I've used it to add haskell support and replace XCode for building
>  >    for 3 exisitng Cocoa applications. Maybe somebody else will find it useful
>  >    as well.
>  >
>  >    --
>  >    -Corey O'Connor
>  >
>  >    * I neglected to make a good list of why the default Cabal build hook
>  >    doesn't work.
>  >
>  > References
>  >
>  >    Visible links
>  >    1. http://tothepowerofdisco.com/repo/HaskellLibraries/
>
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-Corey O'Connor