Brandon Werner

If you’re scratching around trying to find out how to compile Haddock after getting the source, especially if you are using the awesome EclipseFP plug-in for Eclipse which has it’s use integrated inside the IDE, here are the steps:

First, ensure you have Glasgow Haskell Compiler installed, obviously. It has a OS X binary port and I like it over HUGS.

Second, you should really have Happy and Alex installed as well, as the build will look for it, and they are good to have, but will work fine without it.

from your unzipped directory:

$ ghc -o Setup Setup.lhs -package Cabal
$ ./Setup configure --ghc --prefix=${prefix} --enable-library-profiling
$ ./Setup build -v
$ ./Setup copy --copy-prefix=/usr/local/


Of course, /usr/local could be wherever you want the executable and libs to be installed. It has a /bin and /share.

After this step, you should be able to run Haddock documentation extraction from the Eclipse IDE. If you’re curious how Haskell looks in Eclipse with the EclipseFP plug-in, here it is:

With module support and outline expansion, it still takes heavily from the OO world (it doesn’t keep this updated if playing with the shell, for instance) it’s still somewhat nice to keep things organized. Of course, the IDE paradigm changes substantially when you are talking about lazy dynamically typed call-by-value languages. Still, for a round peg trying to fit in a square hole, it’s ok.

I still perfer the Haskell editor in the incredible TextMate, however.

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