Christian Maeder wrote:

Hi,

I've succeeded in building a binary distribution that uses static libraries for gmp and readline. libreadline.a, libncurses.a and libgmp.a with corresponding header files are included. (For license issues ask someone else.) Linking is done using the flag -search_paths_first.

Frameworks or dylibs for gmp or readline are no longer required and are not used when linking binaries.

http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/intel-mac/versions/ghc-6.8.2-i386-apple-darwin-s...

Other static libraries are compatible with those from http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/intel-mac/versions/ghc-6.8.2-i386-apple-darwin.t... (in fact HSreadline-1.0.1.0 was created this way)

Be warned. While static linking seems to work, dynamic linking using ghci does not: ghci -package readline GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package old-time-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package filepath-1.1.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package directory-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package unix-2.3.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package process-1.0.0.0 ... linking ... done. ghc-6.8.2: /Users/Shared/maeder/lib/ghc-6.8.2/lib/readline-1.0.1.0/HSreadline-1.0.1.0.o: unknown symbol `_rl_insert_completions' Loading package readline-1.0.1.0 ... linking ... ghc-6.8.2: unable to load package `readline-1.0.1.0' Has someone an idea how to fix this?

Cheers Christian

P.S. ranlib during installation is actually not needed on Intel Macs (only for PPC)