On 2011-05-20, Evan Laforge
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.
A couple of months ago I succeeded in installing gtk2hs like this on a
Snow Leopard MacBook Air and it seemed to work pretty well. It was
indeed a fairly involved process but it seemed to work and, with a
slightly modified ige-mac-integration, got nice mac-style menu bars etc.
for my application. Unfortunately I'm travelling at the moment and
don't have the mac with me and I'm a little hazy on the details but when
I get back I'll try to write up my experience.
Murray Campbell