My apologies for duplicates, if any. I sent it first from the wrong address
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Thanks for the info. The solution I plan to adopt is as follows.
I can create a tarball of the /Library/Frameworks/GMP.framework folder
on my Intel-Mac that has GHC 6.6 installed. I can ask users of my
application to download said tarball and install it in
/Library/Frameworks or ~/Library/Frameworks. I tested it on one Mac
that didn't have GHC, and it worked. I'll try it on a few others
before declaring that it does work.
On a slightly related note, it appears that GHC-compiled Windows
programs either don't use GMP or have it statically embedded. I ran a
Windows binary of the same program on a machine that almost certainly
doesn't have GMP installed and it worked. Any confirmation would be
appreciated.
Thanks for the help.
Arjun
On 3/9/07, Christian Maeder
(move a discussion to glasgow-haskell-users)
Macs that don't have GHC installed don't seem to have readline-5 installed, either.
Therefore we've created that GNUreadline.framework (see below). However, the binary that one wants to distribute must be linked against that framework. We do this by adding linker options to ghc:
-optl-F/home/maeder/Library/Frameworks -optl-framework -optlGNUreadline
We have also created a binary distribution (for powerpc, though) that uses our GNUreadline.framework. For this we've changed libraries/readline/config.mk manually:
LD=/usr/bin/ld -F/home/maeder/Library/Frameworks -framework GNUreadline SRC_HC_OPTS += -optc-I/home/maeder/Library/Frameworks/GNUreadline.framework/Headers -optl-F/home/maeder/Library/Frameworks -optl-framework -optlGNUreadline SRC_HSC2HS_OPTS += -I/home/maeder/Library/Frameworks/GNUreadline.framework/Headers
The binary distribution is here: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets...
We think, that such a GNUreadline.framework is more flexible and mac-like than installing readline-5 under /opt/local. The framework can reside under /System/Library/Frameworks but also under $HOME/Library/Frameworks.
Maybe you could consider making such a distribution (that also doesn't need root permission) as well?
The sources and the script to create the GNUreadline framework are included: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets...
Cheers Christian
Christian Maeder schrieb:
Arjun Guha schrieb:
Hi,
I compiled a binary using GHC 6.6 on my Mac (specifically, using ghc --make). This binary seems to depend on the GNU MP framework--I imagine GHC uses it to implement its numeric tower.
However, Macs that don't have GHC installed don't seem to have GMP, so I'll guess that it was installed along with the GHC binary. Is there any way to get around this GMP dependency? I expect the binary to be used on Macs that don't have GHC installed. It would be acceptable if I instructed Mac-users to download a binary installer for GMP, but I haven't been able to find one.
Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
We tell our users to install a GMP.framework and a GNUreadline.framework:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets...
Cheers Christian
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