On 09 May 2006 21:19, Reilly Hayes wrote:
The way I built the registerised .hc files in the original e-mail missed several. However, doing a vanilla make with the following mk/ build.mk file will generate them:
------ SRC_HC_OPTS = -H32m -O -fasm -Rghc-timing -keep-hc-files GhcStage1HcOpts = -O0 -DDEBUG GhcLibHcOpts = -O GhcLibWays = SplitObjs = NO ----
make hc-file-bundle Project=ghc creates the tar file with the hc files.
Thanks, I've added this to the documentation.
I've managed to build a stage1 compiler that executes, but I'm not sure it works. I tried a hello world test program as suggested in the documentation. It fails to compile because it can't find the .hi files for the prelude. But, if I understand correctly, I won't have .hi files until I've rebuilt the libraries with the stage1 compiler. Is this right?
Yes.
3) Refinements to your directions
The following need to be made prior to building RTS
$MAKE -C utils/unlit boot all $MAKE -C utils/mkdirhier boot all $MAKE -C driver/mangler
The RTS build generates endless warnings about .o files having no symbols and functions not having previous prototypes. I googled for both and is seems that it is OK, but I would like confirmation.
I can't remember the cause - if you send me a sample of the messages I might remember.
utils/genprimopcode is problematic. The libraries build fails without it, but it wants the libraries to be built in order to link. SOMEHOW (I think by typing 'make' at the top level) I ended up with a viable executable for this. Unfortunately, I can't recreate it from scratch. Now that I have it, I admit that I've taken to using it to salt new builds rather than figure out what is going on.
genprimopcode *should* be compilable because it has .hc files, so it shouldn't need .hi files from the libraries, in the same way that GHC itself is compilable. I imagine there's an ordering problem or somesuch somewhere, but I'll have to try this myself sometime.
The following
readline and ncurses are problematic on the Mac and should be replaced with verisons from gnu. Thanks to whoever posted bug #766, I used the following procedure prior to running configure.
o Download ncurses and readline and install them into /usr/local/ lib. Be sure to build ncurses as shared. o set & export LD_FLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib and CPP_FLAGS=-I/usr/ local/include o make sure these are in your environment when you configure and do your build.
Ok, thanks. Cheers, Simon