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Matt Fenwick
Matt Fenwick

Reputation: 49085

Getting Leksah working on Mac OS X 10.5.8

I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.8. Another question indicated that Leksah is the IDE of choice for Haskell development.

However, Leksah (version 0.10.0.4) requires GHC 7.0.3 (problems with 6.12.2, problems with 6.12.3). Unfortunately, the newest Haskell platform available for OS X 10.5.8 is 6.12.3.

How do I get Leksah working on my Mac? An OS upgrade is not possible. Should I just use a different IDE/text editor?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 621

Answers (2)

barracuda156
barracuda156

Reputation: 21

This is ghc 7.0.4 for Leopard PPC: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.0.4/krabby/ I was also able to use it to build ghc 7.6.3.

Upvotes: 0

John L
John L

Reputation: 28097

According to the latest State of Haskell survey, the most popular IDE's are vi and Emacs, both of which have Haskell-mode features and are quite usable on OS X.

That said, it's probably worthwhile to get ghc-7 anyway. Is self-compiling an option? You can install a ghc-6.12 binary, then use that to bootstrap compiling ghc-7.0.3. Once you have a working ghc-7, download the Haskell Platform Source and build that. Compiling both ghc and the full platform will take a while, but I'd expect it all should work.

Upvotes: 3

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