On 4/10/16 1:03 PM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
You don't need a full system (gentoo) to use GHC + musl in static linking mode. Just an appropriate cross-compiler toolchain.
Yeah, sorry, I was replying to both your suggestion and Lana's suggestion in a single email, but I didn't make that clear. You had suggested the cross-compiler, while she suggested Marios Titas's build of GHC, which is not a cross-compiler, and therefore does need a musl host system. Marios's email had made it sound like using a ghc cross-compiler was difficult, which is why he'd provided the musl-hosted compiler. But since you had good luck with the cross-compiler, I'll give the cross-compiler a try.
crosstools-ng can be configured so that the compiler always produces a static build (run ct-ng menuconfig, and look through the options. The UI should be familiar if you've ever used the Linux kernel menuconfig facility).
Yes, OpenWRT buildroot uses the same "make menuconfig" facility. I'll still probably try OpenWRT's cross toolchain first, since it's already built and sitting in the buildroot on my host system. But crosstools-ng sounds like a good fallback. Sorry for the confusion, --Patrick