@hackage diagrams0.1

Graphics.Rendering.Diagrams provides an embedded domain-specific language (EDSL) for creating simple diagrams in a compositional style.

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Building:

Get the dependencies

The diagrams library uses Haskell bindings to the Cairo vector
graphics library.  In order to build the diagrams library, you
will first need the following:

* The Cairo library itself.  This is probably available through
  your system's package manager and may even already be installed.
  On Ubuntu, for example, it is available from the 'libcairo'
  package.

* The Haskell cairo bindings, which are packaged as part of
  gtk2hs.  Unfortunately, for various technical reasons, gtk2hs is
  not cabalized and cannot be downloaded and installed from
  Hackage.  To get gtk2hs you will need to go to the gtk2hs
  website (http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/) and follow the
  instructions to download and build it.

Build with Cabal:

runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME --user
runhaskell Setup.lhs build
runhaskell Setup.lhs install

(Optionally, you can omit the --prefix and --user arguments to the
configure step, and run the install step with 'sudo' in order to
install the library systemwide.)

Building Haddock documentation (recommended):

runhaskell Setup.lhs haddock

Once the documentation has been built, you can access it by 
pointing your browser to dist/doc/html/index.html.

For some examples of use, see

http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/new-haskell-diagrams-library/