MAC OS X support for arbtt

[Waldir Pimenta]

By the way, to actually run the arbtt-capture command from Terminal and
have it be detached, I had to do (./arbtt-capture &) rather than just
./arbtt-capture&.

Also, to set it up to run automatically at startup, I did crontab -e and
wrote @reboot /Users/peekmeddev/.cabal/bin/arbtt-capture (according to
this:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/156288/how-to-get-shell-scripts-to-run-at-startup-on-yosemite
)

--Waldir

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Waldir Pimenta <waldir at email.com> wrote:

> 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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