I've been accumulating some notes concerning the current status of GHC on ARM here[1]. To quote the tl;dr, GHC 7.8 should run well on ARM with the LLVM code generator and dynamic linking. The process of building GHC itself might be a bit hairy due to linker terribleness. After this, however, you’ll have fully-featured GHC installation supporting all of the modern amenities including GHCi and Template Haskell. Cheers, - Ben [1] http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html