Keeping Hugs alive

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@chrisdone

Some time last year I tried to build it and gave up due to C build system arcanea.

That’s odd - for a version I grabbed from the Hugs site, the "point of stoppage" was that it had been updated to use Cabal during the build process: that failed, so I instead switched to one of the OS-package sources, which I was able to build (I don’t recall having to make any changes - maybe I was just fortunate: no lunar disturbances that day).

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@Ambrose

Having Hugs crystallized in a Nix derivation sounds quite cool.

[ANN] - Hugs for MacOS (x86) - via Nix Flakes

I spent some time with the last public release of the Hugs sources, making them compile on a modern Mac (x86 chipset). I used Nix’s flakes feature to manage the build and install. If you’d like to run the hugs interpreter directly using the flake, just type: nix run github:m4dc4p/hugs#hugs If you’d like to execute a Haskell file, try: nix run github:m4dc4p/hugs <file.hs> Or alternately: nix run github:m4dc4p/hugs#runhugs <file.hs> (That is, runhugs is the default app provided by the flake…