MAC OS X support for arbtt

[Waldir Pimenta]

Hi Vincent! What a great timing! My work laptop is a Mac and I've been
sorely missing arbtt since I started using it. Your instructions worked
great, thanks for the detail! I'll give you feedback on my experience,
hoping it can be useful.

I use Homebrew, and already had cabal-install, pkg-config and pcre
installed through it. One curious detail, which I'm not sure is relevant,
is that the first time I ran cabal install --only-dependencies it only
configured/built/installed pcre, but told me I should update cabal; after
running cabal update, I tried running cabal install --only-dependencies
again, and this time it installed a bunch of other packages: fail, tagged,
semigroups and aeson. I wonder if this means something.

Afterwards, cabal build worked, although there were quite a few deprecation
warnings. Installation worked seamlessly. However, there's no
~/Library/Haskell directory on my machine. The arbtt binaries were placed
in ~/.cabal/bin/. I wonder if this is a difference between Homebrew and
MacPorts...

Other than that, it seems to be working perfectly. Amazing work! Let me
know if i can assist in anyway in getting this ready to merge upstream :)

--Waldir



On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM, <vrasneur at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some code that makes arbtt work with MAC OS X.
> The changes are available in a git branch:
> https://github.com/vrasneur/darcs-mirror-arbtt/commit/e2a138ae865a68bd1b9117f41a1f5ea881995e71
>
> Can somebody with a Mac test that arbtt works correctly with his computer?
>
> Here are the compilation instructions:
>
> First, you need the Haskell platform for Mac.
> You also need:
> * git
> * a package manager for OS X. I use MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/)
> but it should work with Homebrew.
> * XCode and the XCode command line tools
>
> Note: the OS X port itself does not need a C/Objective-C compiler. It uses
> the Haskell FFI to call the Mac OS X specific functions.
>
> then,
>
> * install the C dependencies with your package manager
> sudo port install pkgconfig
> sudo port install pcre
>
> * clone the OS X git branch
> git clone -b osx-support https://github.com/vrasneur/darcs-mirror-arbtt/
>
> * use cabal to build/install arbtt
> cd darcs-mirror-arbtt
> cabal install --only-dependencies
> cabal configure --extra-lib-dir=/usr/lib
> cabal build
> cabal install
>
> The option "--extra-lib-dir=/usr/lib" is necessary because of a conflict
> with iconv. (See http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/?p=96 for a detailed
> explanation)
>
> * then, go to /Users/<user>/Library/Haskell/bin/ and type ls
> You should see all the arbtt binaries.
>
> * then, you can execute the binaries:
> cd /Users/<user>/Library/Haskell/bin/
> ./arbtt-capture&
> ./arbtt-dump
>
> Regards,
>
> Vincent Rasneur
>
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