universal binary version of Haskell Platform?
Recently, in changing my work schedule to work mainly from home, I switched from mainly using a work Wintel machine running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, to mainly using my home PowerPC G4 PowerBook Macintosh, currently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. However, to my surprise, there does not seem to be a version of the Haskell Platform that runs natively on my current OS. Does anybody know where to find a universal binary version of the Haskell Platform, or at least of GHC 6.10.4? Otherwise, I'm stuck without a native version. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 14:05 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
Recently, in changing my work schedule to work mainly from home, I switched from mainly using a work Wintel machine running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, to mainly using my home PowerPC G4 PowerBook Macintosh, currently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
However, to my surprise, there does not seem to be a version of the Haskell Platform that runs natively on my current OS.
Does anybody know where to find a universal binary version of the Haskell Platform, or at least of GHC 6.10.4? Otherwise, I'm stuck without a native version.
There no binary platform installer for OSX PPC. You'll have to grab ghc-6.10.4 for PPC from the ghc download page and then install the platform from the generic source tarball. If you'd like to help us next time to make a platform binary for PPC then that'd be great. I don't think we have the setup to make universal binaries but it should be possible to make a PPC build if we have a volunteer. Duncan
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:52:35 +0000, Duncan Coutts
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There no binary platform installer for OSX PPC. You'll have to grab ghc-6.10.4 for PPC from the ghc download page and then install the platform from the generic source tarball.
Ah, that's too bad. That means that I won't be able to invoke GHC outside of the Terminal application by default, and that even if I create a Darwin shell script and alias to invoke it from Aqua, the icon for that shell script will only be generic by default. I'd rather click on an application icon in the Dock.
If you'd like to help us next time to make a platform binary for PPC then that'd be great. I don't think we have the setup to make universal binaries but it should be possible to make a PPC build if we have a volunteer.
Sure, barring job-related time constraints, I'd be happy to volunteer. My Mac just went out of service because of a hardware problem with the memory, so I'm order new replacement RAM this weekend. As soon as that arrives and I install it, the problem should be resolved. What should I do? -- Benjamin L. Russell
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
Ah, that's too bad. That means that I won't be able to invoke GHC outside of the Terminal application by default, and that even if I create a Darwin shell script and alias to invoke it from Aqua, the icon for that shell script will only be generic by default. I'd rather click on an application icon in the Dock.
You can write an applescript similar to Open Terminal Here from http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/ and endow it with a custom icon. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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