Mac OS X Strike Force
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The following is a wiki page to centralize discussion of how to improve Haskell on Mac OS X. The name "strike force" comes from dons' post on reddit and the comments therein.
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1 Goals
1.1 Taking care of the Haskell Platform installer
The Haskell Platform OSX installer is looking for a new maintainer (concat Greg: "greg at gregorycollins net").
- who is willing to take over?
- collborate or single effort?
- where to host?
1.2 Make native Gtk-bindings easy to install
1.3 Make wxWidgets-bindings easy to install
1.4 Make GHC 64 bit
Mac OS X GHC Trac tickets:
1.5 Reduce the number of GHC tickets
2 Information
2.1 Wiki
2.2 Installing Haskell
2.2.1 How Haskell is on OS X today
The simplest methods are currently:
- Binary GHC framework (/Library/Framework)
- Binary Haskell platform framework (/Library/Framework)
- MacPorts (/opt/local)
- Fink (/sw)
- Homebrew (symlinked into /usr/local ?)
2.2.2 Manually compiled
ChrisKuklewicz 11:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC) I use MacPorts for the infrastructure and compile ghc against /opt/local but with --prefix=/opt/ghc-6.12.3 to keep it separate.
2.2.3 Dynamic Linking
working in GHC HEAD, not in any released version.
2.2.4 Difficult libraries on OS X
Libraries needed for ghc
- iconv (older version in /usr is incompatible with new version from MacPorts)
- readline (faked in /usr, provided by framework or MacPorts)
- gmp (framework or MacPorts)
Libraries needed for other packages? gtk?
2.3 OS X code integration
Write Haskell in XCode?
Write ObjectiveC against GHC.Framework?
FFI for Objective C from Haskell?
2.4 Improvements?
A cabal2pkg that maintains proper dependency tracking?
Discussion forum for all this?
