a) 7.6.2 vs 7.6.1 seems unlike to be the issue, although theoretically possible I guess. 

b) Actually, the blog post is how to set things up by hand for better control than either of those tools give you; but again, I don't think it's relevant. 

c) This might be a bigger difference. I don't know what version brew installs, where it installs it, etc. etc.

d) And this might be related too; yes, I'm using XQuartz and have the GTK compiled for it; currently using 2.7.4 but I don't know if I upgraded since building.

-E

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Edsko, thanks for the reply.

The only things that might affect the outcome are:

a) Ghc version: I'm running ghc 7.6.2 instead of 7.6.1

b) Don't know if you are using cabal-dev as sandboxing (like any good Haskell programmer I'm too lazy to open your blog post :D ), whilst I'm using hsenv

c) I've brewed GTK instead of manually installing it, but gtk-demo runs just fine

d) Are you using XQuartz? If yes, which version?

Thanks again!

A.

On 4 April 2013 08:52, Edsko de Vries <edskodevries@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Alfredo,

No dark magic as far as I recall (except in the actual bundling as a Mac app, unfortunately that required some magic, the GTK libraries don't relocate so easily :-( ). I didn't have any problems building. I compiled it with ghc 7.6.1, with the GTK libraries installed manually (there are some suggestions on how to do that at the very end of my Comprehensive Haskell Sandboxes post, http://www.edsko.net/2013/02/10/comprehensive-haskell-sandboxes/). It used to be a lot more painful (requiring the latest versions of Haskell libraries, with patches etc.) but these days the situation is a lot better. (That's not so say that problems like the one you reported don't still crop up from time to time, and can cause many a sleepless night..).

Edsko

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Edsko, the app is awesome and it's starting just fine.

Even though this fixes my problem, it doesn't solve the root, namely why it was failing.

Can you tell me a bit more about the dark magic you used to make it work?

Which GHC version did you use?

Thanks a lot,

A.

On 3 April 2013 12:40, Edsko de Vries <edskodevries@gmail.com> wrote:

I provide a ThreadScope binary on my site (http://www.edsko.net/2013/01/24/threadscope-0-2-2/) which runs fine for me on 10.8.3.

-E

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Dominic Steinitz <dominic@steinitz.org> wrote:

Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
> Said that,has someone had any luck in running Threadscope on Mac OS X 10.8 at all?
>
> Thanks,
> A.
>

I think I have encountered the same problem:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/parallel-haskell/-lhrgNN8elw/KzqLM9BzoJwJ

In my experience, anything that uses gtk is a problem on a MAC.

I still intend to do some analysis *not* using threadscope but using event-logs directly
but that is at least a few weeks away.

Dominic.

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