On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Rob Nikander
Hi,
I'd like to install Haskell on a linux virtual server with about 600 MB of RAM. (Maybe that is doomed to failure?) The goal is to try "happstack" for web apps, behind nginx. Compiling the whole platform is asking for OpenGL... so I thought I would get cabal and install pieces that I want. I downloaded the 'generic ghc binary' from here: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html and that seems to work. But when I download the cabal-install tarball and try to run it's 'bootstrap.sh' I run out of memory. Is there a way to tell it to use less memory?
You don't really need to compile GHC by yourself on the memory constrained machine. First of all, you may use a binary distribution. And second, you may compile on a different machine with more RAM. That said, compiling Haskell programs on such low memory computers isn't really difficult, provided your program isn't as big as GHC. I've been succesfully using an AWS micro instance with 595 MiB of RAM and an Yesod app. (But I have some swap memory should it be needed.) HTH, =) -- Felipe.