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You can reach the person managing the list at beginners-ow...@haskell.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Beginners digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Installing Haskell on a Mac (Xavier Shay) 2. Re: Installing Haskell on a Mac (Paul Higham) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:41:31 +1100 From: Xavier Shay <xavier-l...@rhnh.net> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing Haskell on a Mac To: beginners@haskell.org Message-ID: <4d59af9b.4010...@rhnh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:39:32 -0800 From: Paul Higham <polyg...@mac.com> Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Installing Haskell on a Mac To: Xavier Shay <xavier-l...@rhnh.net> Cc: beginners@haskell.org Message-ID: <5eb81036-a39f-416b-a788-482d788f2...@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beginners mailing list >> Beginners@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners End of Beginners Digest, Vol 32, Issue 31 *****************************************