Nothing can link with gtk on Snow Leopard

[John Lato]

>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I've done a "sudo cabal install gtk
> > --global" on my system, and it warns me that "file was built for
> unsupported
> > file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)". What does
> > this refer to?
> >
> > Subsequently, nothing else _links_ properly with gtk.
> >
> > For example, hp2any-manager (or other tools) all fail during linking with
> > gtk.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> >
>
> At one point I had this problem due to hsc2hs attempting to build 64-bit.
>  What happens if you try running:
>
> cabal install gtk --global --hsc2hs-flags=--cflags=-m32
>
> (I think that's the incantation I used).
>
> Apologies for not remembering more details, but I'm strongly suspicious
> that
> the issue lies in hsc2hs.
>

Small addendum - this is assuming that gtk+ is indeed available as 32-bit,
as Greg confirmed is necessary.  I would check the gtk libraries with "lipo
-info" to see the available architectures.
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