[Haskell-cafe] GHC and OS X (10.4) [SOLVED]

[Tom Davie]

Thanks to a lot of help from Gregory Wright, it is now possible to
install ghc 6.2.1 on Tiger - it takes quite a bit of fiddling before
it will work, but there is a way.  The package available at
Haskell.org will not work, however the darwin ports version will given
that gcc 3.1 is installed on the system - this however is not the
easiest thing in the world to make work.  You can however get it
installed by downloading XCode 1.5 from apple developer connection,
going into the packages directory on that disk image, moving the
gcc3.1 package onto your hard disk and editing it's contents slightly.
Do show package contents on the installer, and go into
Contents/Resources, then edit VolumeCheck with your favourite text
editor, edit line 28 to say
 if (CheckVersion("$SYSTEM_VERS", "10.5", "ProductVersion", ">=")) {
The package should now install happily on tiger, you can then use port
install ghc to install ghc and it's dependancies.

Hope this helps anyone digging in the archives for a solution.

Tom Davie

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:59:59 -0400, Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> You might try building ghc using darwinports
> (darwinports.opendarwin.org).
> It works under both Jaguar and Panther. I maintain the port, and would
> be
> interested in your experience on 10.4-beta.  (The darwinports version
> doesn't
> use /Library/Frameworks, instead it keeps everything in a unix-style
> lib/
> hierarchy.)
> 
> The downside is that it takes a few hours to build.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Greg Wright
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 2, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Tom Davie wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >   I've been attempting to use GHC on a beta copy of Mac OS X 10.4,
> > I've been attmepting to use the panther version of the install
> > package, but have hit a problem with tinkering with it - I get the
> > following error when I attempt to run ghc:
> > Verenia:~/Documents/Development/XBridgeAI tatd100$ ghc
> > dyld: Library not found:
> > HaskellSupport.framework/Versions/A/HaskellSupport
> >   Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.2.1/ghc-6.2.1
> >   Reason: file not found
> > Trace/BPT trap
> >
> > The framework is present in /Library/Frameworks, and
> > /Library/Frameworks is in dyld's framework search path.
> >
> > Any Mac/Haskell gurus able to help I would much appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tom Davie
> > _______________________________________________
> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> > Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
> >
> 
>