Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs & graphics

Message: 17 Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:59:51 -0700 From: Evan Laforge Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs & graphics To: Erik Hesselink Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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Note that it is supposed to be possible to build gtk2hs with gtk+osx, which will not use X11 but use the native OS X GUI. I've not been able to get this to work, but it's been a while since I tried. The Haskell wiki mentions it doesn't support Glade, but does support Cairo. If this were to work, gtk2hs would be a serious option as well.

I've tried this 3 or 4 times, and failed every time. It's crazy complicated.

I used to use this combination regularly. IME the difficulties are primarily with getting a working gtk+osx build. Once that was accomplished, gtk2hs was a straightforward install, provided you build from the src repo with the -quartz flag. Recently I've switched to using macports gtk2 with the quartz, no-x11 variant, which also uses native cocoa. This is much more reliable than gtk+osx. I don't know if it supports Glade though. My biggest problem with wx is that there's no support for building 64-bit wx applications on OS X. If that were fixed I might prefer it. John Lato