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