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> package won't build on OS X There is a binary installer. We're discussing how to work with MacPorts, but at the moment it only has 3rd party support status.
by dons 16y ago
> package won't build on OS X
There is a binary installer. We're discussing how to work with MacPorts, but at the moment it only has 3rd party support status.
- jewbacca 16y ago... whoa, that's pretty cool. Also, I feel like a douchebag. Thanks for building and sharing this stuff at all. Where's that binary at? Also, what's this about MacPorts? I only ever tried using cabal (as installed with Haskell Platform) and have no understanding of the structure of the underlying installation. As perhaps the prototypical semi-clueless amateur, potential vanguard of the article's "mainstream", who's stumbled early onto this serious and enormous thing, I am scared and confused by the idea of having to install MacPorts again to muck up my pretty filesystem.
- danielmueller 16y agohttp://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Works like a charm! Only hitch I had was that the prebuilt libraries are 32bit, and if you want to link something to a native library under Snow Leopard, and said library happens to be available only in 64bit, you're out of luck. Case in point: I tried to customize XMonad under X11.app/10.6 with a custom xmonad.hs. Running straight XMonad worked fine, but trying to use the recompilation failed... -> Would be nice to have a 64bit Haskell Platform build. But that's probably a more exotic usecase as you'd usually either stay in Haskell-land (which compiles in a compatible way), or link against *nix style libraries, which you probably fetch via MacPorts, and there you can control the compilation as well. A big thank you to Don for the packaging effort, it's very much appreciated by newbies (incl. me).