I tried that too... but I think I fell foul to a missing library for the arbitrary length arithmetic. can't remember the name of it off-hand though. On 31 May 2013 13:08, Brent Yorgey wrote:

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:54:54PM -0400, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:

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Perl and Python both have GUI interfaces, which are handy for publishing little give-away apps, as I used to do quite a lot in Perl/Tk and also in ancient of days on JForth. Also to make give-away apps, there needs to be a turn-key compiler, something into which I'd feed code and out would come an *.exe (albeit quite bloated in size) that ran on any PC which did not have Haskell already installed.

By default, GHC produces statically linked executables, which (if I'm not mistaken) can be distributed to anyone with the same machine architecture, whether they have anything Haskell-related installed or not.

-Brent

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Whatever he said. All I know is that the last time I copied a binary across to another box it failed with a "missing libgmp.so" message! Beware!! On 31 May 2013 15:13, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, emacstheviking wrote:

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I tried that too... but I think I fell foul to a missing library for the arbitrary length arithmetic. can't remember the name of it off-hand though.

libgmp? I think there are ways to make that get statically linked as well, although various platforms (Debian derivatives, mostly) strongly discourage doing this, to the extent that they modify their packaged ghc to force a dependency on the system gmp library (and, somewhat ironically, are also the ones most prone to having no or an incompatible version installed at runtime).

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GHC is a compiler. Ensuring all the necessary libraries are installed is the work of an installer. That said, it is *nice* when compilers will statically link your executable. Tim Perry (916) 505-3634 On May 31, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Giacomo Tesio wrote:

I'm wondering why there's no tool that build an EXE that contains everything is needed. statically linking anything that is required... is there any problem with ghc here?

Giacomo

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:28 PM, emacstheviking wrote:

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Whatever he said. All I know is that the last time I copied a binary across to another box it failed with a "missing libgmp.so" message! Beware!!

On 31 May 2013 15:13, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, emacstheviking wrote:

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I tried that too... but I think I fell foul to a missing library for the arbitrary length arithmetic. can't remember the name of it off-hand though.

libgmp? I think there are ways to make that get statically linked as well, although various platforms (Debian derivatives, mostly) strongly discourage doing this, to the extent that they modify their packaged ghc to force a dependency on the system gmp library (and, somewhat ironically, are also the ones most prone to having no or an incompatible version installed at runtime).

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