xmonad
macOS CI (and macOS dependency instructions)
configure: error: X11 libraries not found, so X11 package cannot be built
It would be good to document in README which steps to take to install the X11 dependencies on macOS.
Also a CI running on macos-latest could help ensure that these instructions are staying fresh.
What used to work is brew install libxrandr libxscrnsaver: https://github.com/teach-afp/afp-code/blob/af948f0540737c65d818372d187e19e7621917a5/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L63-L66
But this was for the Intel mac (macos-12), it is broken on the ARM image (macos-14).
On my local machine I got it to build after installing Xquartz: https://www.xquartz.org/index.html Not sure if this is an option for CI.
We'll probably need someone to volunteer here as none of us in the xmonad team use MacOS much. Up until now I didn't even consider it might build or work at all.
And I wonder what the usecase is anyway. I think I tried XQuartz relatively recently and the experience was super bad. It was a thousand times slower than just running Linux in QEMU.
I can confirm that brew install --cask xquartz installs the necessary prerequisites: https://github.com/teach-afp/afp-code/pull/3/files
I only use it for teaching, mostly to run legacy code...
FWIW, what I had to do when I ran macOS (2016ish) was install XQuartz (directly) and patch xmonad and xmonad-contrib to use pkg-config. brew may obviate the patching.
