Haskell for Mac Package Builder

This repository contains package builder scripts to add extra packages to Haskell for Mac. This includes packages that wrap extra foreign language libraries.

• script — builder scripts
• packages — package specifications
• sets — package set specifications

Package sets are sets of packages needed to provide specific functionality — for example, the llvm-general set consists of all packages that are needed to use the llvm-general package, including the LLVM C++ framework. Package sets can be archived for binary distribution. Package sets can be dependent on other package sets — for example, the accelerate set depends on the llvm-general set.

Package builders are entirely self-contained and automatically download and build all required components. However, there is currently no dependency management; i.e., package builders explicitly need to be executed in package dependency order. Package sets ensure that all enclosed packages are built in the correct order.

Supported package sets

So far, we have support for three package sets (c.f., the sets/ subdirectory of this repo):

• llvm-general — Haskell interface to the LLVM compiler toolkit: the main package is llvm-general.
• accelerate — embedded array language for high-performance computations on multicore CPUs and GPUs: this package set contains the pre-release version of Accelerate 1.0 including a parallelising and SIMD-vectorising CPU multicore backend. (No GPU backend support included, but programs developed with this package can also be run on GPUs.) This package set also includes all of llvm-general.
• hmatrix — Haskell interface to BLAS, LAPACK, and GSL.

To install a package set by compiling from source,

1. clone this repo and
2. execute build_set.sh install <package set>.

For example, build_set.sh install accelerate-1.0 will install the entire Accelerate package set.

The build_set.sh script also supports achiving a package set into a binary package set archive (tar ball), which in turn can be installed with install_set.sh. Binary package sets are relocatable and can be installed on other Macs with install_set.sh.

All this assumes that the Haskell for Mac command line tools are already installed.