Re: GHC runtime DLLs

Hi Brian,

So here I am, trying to figure out what I can do to help GHC, since right now GHC is the only actively maintained, current Haskell compiler available. nhc98 and Yhc are both compilers which are actively maintained.

(In any case, nhc98 uses GMP as well, so even if you use nhc98 you will still have the DLL-NOTES problem to deal with.) However, Yhc has a bytecode/runtime split, the runtime is Yhc and is linked with GMP. The bytecode is not linked to GMP. In fact, even if GMP was GPL (rather than just LGPL), Yhc would still allow you to have entirely closed source bytecodes. So with Yhc you can have big numbers and closed source :)

Thanks Neil