There is a working GHC-to-.Net runtime available at www.mondrian-script.org http://www.mondrian-script.org/ ; reving the Jva a backend should not be too much of a problem. Erik Message: 1 Subject: RE: haskell.runtime.* ?? Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:16:24 -0700 From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" < simonpj@microsoft.com mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com > To: "Kwanghoon Choi" < khchoi@ruby.kaist.ac.kr mailto:khchoi@ruby.kaist.ac.kr >, < glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org mailto:glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > I'm afraid that no one ever completed the GHC Haskell->Java story. The idea is that the JVM is the runtime, but of course you need to implement the standard libraries somehow,=20 and all the primitive operations GHC uses. Not a trivial task, but one we are undertaking for .NET. Bottom line: the reason you can't find a runtime is because you are supposed to compile the Java with a Java compiler and run that. But you'll need to do more than that to actually run programs Simon