RE: Building GHC on OS X

You have to build the libraries before you build stage2. (the stage2 compiler relies on the libraries!) Just sit in the root directory of the tree (just above libraries/ and compiler/) and type 'make'. The library error message was a compiler bug, fixed yesterday. It should work now. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of David Kirkman | Sent: 09 August 2006 01:37 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Building GHC on OS X | | Hi, | | I've been using ghc on Mac OS X for a while now, so when I noticed | Simon Marlow's call (made last month, but I just noticed it) for people | to help with OS X, I thought, why not? | | Well, it turns out that I can't even build ghc, so I'm not likely to | end up being much help. But it would be nice to at least be able to | build the thing, so if anybody can help me... | | I'm trying to build GHC (6.5.?? ... version from darcs.haskell.org as | of yesterday) on Mac OS X (10.4.7 ppc) bootstrapping from ghc 6.4.2 | and gcc 4.0.1. | | "./configure; make" does not work. On my initial try, I ran into the | UNDO_DELETE, etc problems associated with Darwin's partial readline | support described in ticket #766. The fix suggested in that ticket | seems to work fine, but not until I installed the GNU readline library. | (If the change to detect the broken Darwin readline is in the | repository, | it did not work for me). | | After fixing the readline problem, it looks like I can build at least | part of the stage1 compiler -- but the build fails just after starting | to build stage2. The final error is: | | > ../compiler/ghc-inplace -H32m -O0 -W -fno-warn-unused-matches - | fwarn-unused-imports -istage2/utils -istage2/basicTypes -istage2/ | types -istage2/hsSyn -istage2/prelude -istage2/rename -istage2/ | typecheck -istage2/deSugar -istage2/coreSyn -istage2/specialise - | istage2/simplCore -istage2/stranal -istage2/stgSyn -istage2/ | simplStg -istage2/codeGen -istage2/main -istage2/profiling - | istage2/parser -istage2/cprAnalysis -istage2/ndpFlatten -istage2/ | iface -istage2/cmm -istage2/nativeGen -istage2/ghci -Istage2 - | DGHCI -DBREAKPOINT -package template-haskell -threaded -cpp -fglasgow- | exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser - | package unix -package Cabal -ignore-package lang -recomp -Rghc-timing | -DDEBUG -H16M '-#include "hschooks.h"' -package-name ghc-6.5 - | fgenerics -O -c utils/FastString.lhs -o stage2/utils/FastString.o - | ohi stage2/utils/FastString.hi | > | > utils/FastString.lhs:73:0: | > Failed to load interface for `GHC.Exts': | > Could not find module `GHC.Exts': | > use -v to see a list of the files searched for | > <> | > make[2]: *** [stage2/utils/FastString.o] Error 1 | > make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2 | > make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2 | | | The first error that I can find comes when building ghc/libraries/ | base (in stage1) | | > ../../compiler/ghc-inplace -H32m -O0 -W -fno-warn-unused-matches - | fwarn-unused-imports -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude -"#include" | HsBase.h -funbox-strict-fields -package-name base-1.0 -O -dcore-lint | -W -fno-warn-unused-matches -fwarn-unused-imports -keep-hc-files - | fgenerics -c Data/Generics/Schemes.hs -o Data/Generics/Schemes.o - | ohi Data/Generics/Schemes.hi | | > Data/Generics/Schemes.hs:108:15: | > Couldn't match expected type `r' (a rigid variable) | > against inferred type `[a]' | > `r' is bound by the type signature for `listify' | > at Data/Generics/Schemes.hs:106:20 | > Expected type: r -> r -> r | > Inferred type: [a] -> [a] -> [a] | > In the first argument of `everything', namely `(++)' | > In the call (everything (++) | > ([] `mkQ` (\ x -> if p x then [x] else []))) | > make[2]: *** [Data/Generics/Schemes.o] Error 1 | | After that, there are a handful of errors complaining about things that | can't be found (e.g.) | | > CPUTime.hs:5:0: | > Failed to load interface for `System.CPUTime': | > Could not find module `System.CPUTime': | > use -v to see a list of the files searched for | > make[2]: *** [CPUTime.o] Error 1 | | and | | > Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs:46:0: | > Failed to load interface for `Data.PackedString': | > Could not find module `Data.PackedString': | > use -v to see a list of the files searched for | > make[2]: *** [Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.o] Error 1 | | There are six or seven more messages like those, but nothing severe | enough to | stop make until the problem where it can not find 'GHC.Exts'. | | I tried to brute force it with 'make -k', which went a lot further, | but in the end build nothing useful. | | Anybody have any ideas? Or build instructions for OS X? | | Thanks, | | -david k. | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users