ghc on on macbook pro (fwd)
Does ghc work on the (intel) macbooks or does it need to be rebuilt? Will code compiled for the old macs work on the macbooks or does it need to be recompiled? -Alex- ______________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com
S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
Does ghc work on the (intel) macbooks or does it need to be rebuilt?
If you mean a binary that had previously, yes, it would need to be rebuilt.
Will code compiled for the old macs work on the macbooks or does it need to be recompiled?
I don't expect that ghc has any support for building "universal binaries", so in all likelihood yes.
On 4-Mar-06, at 11:07 AM, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
Does ghc work on the (intel) macbooks or does it need to be rebuilt? Will code compiled for the old macs work on the macbooks or does it need to be recompiled?
Yes and no. GHC, and programs compiled by it, should run without recompiling under Apple's "Rosetta" emulator, but that will be slower than on (powerpc) PowerBooks. A port to Mac OS X on Intel is in progress and mostly finished. GHC 6.6 will support building native Intel code for the new Macs; if there is sufficient demand, I could also backport this support to the GHC 6.4.x line once it's finished. Cheers, Wolfgang
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