8 ms·

Haskell on Windows

55 points by fegu 14y ago

fegu 14y ago
I made this submission myself (it is my own blog). The issues in this blog post took some time to solve, and was not obvious at the outset. I hope it can help others new to Haskell.
- darkchasma 14y ago
  Have you tried the chocolatey package?
  - fegu 14y ago
    I have not tried that, but most of the issues I address (if not all) would still be present since a packager/installer can't address them - only changes in the Haskell Platform itself can address these issues.
    - carterschonwald 14y ago
      You should file some tickets with the Haskell platform folks. Some of these problems are beyond the scope of what HP can / should do, but HP, like many other bits of the Haskell ecosystem are entirely volunteer driven.
      - fegu 14y ago
        I filed one with the ekg-maintainer and try to folow the development. Hopefully, the cabal path issue is solved when 2013.02 comes out.
        carterschonwald 14y ago
        So you want the Haskell platform install to edit your path variables? Write a patch and ask the Haskell platform folks if they'd merge it in. It's all open source. The best way to fix simple things is to fix them and send in a patch.
mitchi 14y ago
I am a Windows user but I am seriously considering buying a small mac computer (maybe macbook air but I want more ram) for open-source development. It's no surprise that today, many tools, many functional languages work best on Linux and MacOS. All the screencasts I watched recently were on MacOSX. I tried many things to have it both ways : VMWARE with Ubuntu : X Server crashes every time when I use the browser VMWARE with Mint/Fedora : Crashes before that VMWARE with MacOSX : The whole thing went into a crashing loop after 10 minutes. Back to my snappy W7 I am.
- Already__Taken 14y ago
  I'm a big windows user and honestly, quite the fan to. But Linux really does look like it makes a lot of development easier so here's what I've been considering. I'm going to make a vagrant VM with chef, possibly arch but I don't think I'm up to configuring it. Add that VHD to my boot list so i can ssh into the box for a lot of what i want and to really try it out just reboot into it for the full gui environment. It'll be interesting to see if linux will handle changing the hardware back and forth like that.
  - gizmo686 14y ago
    It shouldn't run into problems with changing hardware. I keep an Ubuntu install on a thumbdrive, and am able to boot into it on every computer I have tried, without noticing any issues.
- fegu 14y ago
  Me too, as much as I dislike the half-eaten apple, MacOSX is a great product. It even beat FreeBSD to having DTrace support switched on by default.
- dopamean 14y ago
  I just bought a Macbook Air. 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Seems snappy enough for me.
  - mitchi 14y ago
anonymousDan 14y ago
Is it any easier to write gui code on windows now? I remember trying to write stuff with gtk a few years ago and it was incredibly painful to get anything to work.
- kryptiskt 14y ago
  The gtk bindings are easily installable with cabal install these days, so it's way easier now. Just download one of the all-inclusive GTK bundles, add the bin dir to the path, then 'cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools' and 'cabal install gtk'.

55 points by fegu 14y ago

fegu 14y ago

I made this submission myself (it is my own blog). The issues in this blog post took some time to solve, and was not obvious at the outset. I hope it can help others new to Haskell.

darkchasma 14y ago
Have you tried the chocolatey package?
- fegu 14y ago
  I have not tried that, but most of the issues I address (if not all) would still be present since a packager/installer can't address them - only changes in the Haskell Platform itself can address these issues.
  - carterschonwald 14y ago
    You should file some tickets with the Haskell platform folks. Some of these problems are beyond the scope of what HP can / should do, but HP, like many other bits of the Haskell ecosystem are entirely volunteer driven.
    - fegu 14y ago
      I filed one with the ekg-maintainer and try to folow the development. Hopefully, the cabal path issue is solved when 2013.02 comes out.
      - carterschonwald 14y ago
        So you want the Haskell platform install to edit your path variables? Write a patch and ask the Haskell platform folks if they'd merge it in. It's all open source. The best way to fix simple things is to fix them and send in a patch.

mitchi 14y ago

I am a Windows user but I am seriously considering buying a small mac computer (maybe macbook air but I want more ram) for open-source development. It's no surprise that today, many tools, many functional languages work best on Linux and MacOS. All the screencasts I watched recently were on MacOSX. I tried many things to have it both ways : VMWARE with Ubuntu : X Server crashes every time when I use the browser VMWARE with Mint/Fedora : Crashes before that VMWARE with MacOSX : The whole thing went into a crashing loop after 10 minutes. Back to my snappy W7 I am.

Already__Taken 14y ago
I'm a big windows user and honestly, quite the fan to. But Linux really does look like it makes a lot of development easier so here's what I've been considering. I'm going to make a vagrant VM with chef, possibly arch but I don't think I'm up to configuring it. Add that VHD to my boot list so i can ssh into the box for a lot of what i want and to really try it out just reboot into it for the full gui environment. It'll be interesting to see if linux will handle changing the hardware back and forth like that.
- gizmo686 14y ago
  It shouldn't run into problems with changing hardware. I keep an Ubuntu install on a thumbdrive, and am able to boot into it on every computer I have tried, without noticing any issues.
fegu 14y ago
Me too, as much as I dislike the half-eaten apple, MacOSX is a great product. It even beat FreeBSD to having DTrace support switched on by default.
dopamean 14y ago
I just bought a Macbook Air. 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Seems snappy enough for me.
- mitchi 14y ago

anonymousDan 14y ago

Is it any easier to write gui code on windows now? I remember trying to write stuff with gtk a few years ago and it was incredibly painful to get anything to work.

kryptiskt 14y ago
The gtk bindings are easily installable with cabal install these days, so it's way easier now. Just download one of the all-inclusive GTK bundles, add the bin dir to the path, then 'cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools' and 'cabal install gtk'.