[Haskell-cafe] XCode Dependency for HP on Mac

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 27 July 2011 14:18, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/11, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Installing the Haskell Platform currently requires XCode developer tools.
>>>
>>> To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I...
>>
>> My understanding is that it's about $5 (though I seem to recall
>> hearing that they recently made it free), but I don't use OSX so I
>> can't really help you.
>>
>
> The choices Apple's given me are OS X 10.7 ($30), or Developer Account
> ($99/1 year). I don't see XCode available for sale without one of
> these two.

Apparently it's now in the Mac App store: http://developer.apple.com/xcode/

>
>>> Is there a way to install HP without XCode? Could there be in the
>>> future? [...] it seems like a
>>> small function that XCode actually performs in the Haskell development
>>> "toolchain."
>>
>> A C compiler (specifically gcc; not sure if anyone has tried GHC with
>> clang yet).  Whilst GHC doesn't need to go via C any more, the Haskell
>> Platform does come with some libraries that have a C component; GHC is
>> also partly written in C (for the RTS if memory serves) though that
>> shouldn't be a factor here as you're getting a binary.
>>
>
> If this is the case, couldn't the HP use gcc instead? I'd personally
> advocate gcc as standard, not as a workaround, because
> a) gcc is FOSS.
> b) XCode is 4GB and its functionality is basically orthogonal to the
> needs of Haskell developers.

Yes, but AFAIK to get gcc for OSX you get it from XCode :/

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