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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Installing Haskell on a Mac (Xavier Shay)
2. Re: Installing Haskell on a Mac (Paul Higham)
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:41:31 +1100
From: Xavier Shay <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing Haskell on a Mac
To: [email protected]
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On 15/02/11 1:28 AM, Torsten Otto wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Two students in my class tried to install Haskell on their private
> MacBooks (one Leopard, one SnowLeopard). We used the package at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html. Neither of them got to
> install it as the button "Install" is greyed and not clickable.
>
> What is the best way to install GHC on a current Mac? It would not
> necessarily have to be the latest greatest.
If you are not adverse to package managers, I found brew to be painless:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
brew install ghc # I was using just this for a while
brew install haskell-platform # To get cabal and all that stuff
Cheers,
Xavier
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:39:32 -0800
From: Paul Higham <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing Haskell on a Mac
To: Xavier Shay <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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And also remember to install the Unix Developers tools when you
install XCode.
::paul
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Xavier Shay wrote:
>
>
> On 15/02/11 1:28 AM, Torsten Otto wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Two students in my class tried to install Haskell on their private
>> MacBooks (one Leopard, one SnowLeopard). We used the package at
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html. Neither of them got to
>> install it as the button "Install" is greyed and not clickable.
>>
>> What is the best way to install GHC on a current Mac? It would not
>> necessarily have to be the latest greatest.
> If you are not adverse to package managers, I found brew to be
> painless:
>
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
> brew install ghc # I was using just this for a while
> brew install haskell-platform # To get cabal and all that stuff
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Torsten
>>
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>> [email protected]
>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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