Re: [Haskell-beginners] Distributing executables

No love for OS X? On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Alp Mestan wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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It could be a good extension to Cabal (not the tool), currently there's the target 'sdist', maybe add a target 'wininst'.  Similar to how Python's distutils have targets for MSI and Windows installers.

Actually, I was more thinking about a separate tool. Something you'd just install, from cabal/apt/pacman/whatever, using some external system tools to check out dependencies of the application, then packaging everything and putting some install.sh script around for linux, and a nice installer under Windows, etc. It is just an idea, but the main point here is that it'd just be "simple". (of course, the idea I describe may fail heavily for packaging very complex and heavy apps, IMO, but I think there are workarounds)

Linux ought to be simple, a script based on output from ldd would most likely do it.  Or even better, run prelink on the executable (I suspect it'd work, but I'm not sure).  Though for Linux I don't understand why anyone would do this, since it's so simple to put together distro packages :-)

IMNSHO Windows is the only OS where it's useful to create binary installers.  There are quite a few tools out there for that, I'd expect most of them would be suitable for Haskell binaries.

/M

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