Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskellers hate GUIs!!

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Anthony Cowley wrote:

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dominic Espinosa wrote:

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Is there a general strategy for deploying Haskell apps, graphical or no, to MacOS X and/or Windows? I'm especially interested in cases where the application uses some heavyweight libraries like OpenGL.

I have a GUI app that I deploy on Mac and Linux that uses OpenGL and wxHaskell. It has been a pretty good experience, but getting wx set up on every development machine is hairier than cabal install. The good news is that it was easy to set up a pure GLUT front end as well as a wx one that both use the same OpenGL code for rendering graphically intensive bits. I just have two build targets to switch between the two.

For general cross-platform GUI apps that I need in a pinch, I turn to PLT Scheme. They have a really excellent system in this regard.

Yeah PLT is pretty awesome... But I think they're calling it Racket now. :-) http://www.plt-racket.org/new-name.html

Anthony