Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
3) Personally, I'd love to see ghc on iPhone. It could even persuade me to upgrade.
See the GHC-on-ARM page[1] for my work on it last summer, among others'. GHC is tough to port because bootstrapping to new architectures has been broken for a long time, since soon after 6.6.2. My attempts to cross-compile 6.6.1 using the development environment for my Nokia N810 failed, as can be seen in [1]. I attempted several times to build Hugs for it: it would build successfully and then fail to run either on the device, in scratchbox, or natively compiled on x86 because it failed to find the Prelude. I suspect I was doing something wrong in building Hugs, something unrelated to the ARM platform. The good news is that jhc's portable C code works perfectly well -- but of course that is simply running precompiled Haskell apps and not a compiler or interpreter running on the device. Since jhc is not self-hosting (yet?) but instead is built with GHC, that's the best we can do with that approach for now. Braden Shepherdson shepheb [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ArmLinuxGhc