Conrad Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:15:44 am Braden Shepherdson wrote:
Dan Mead wrote:
has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in haskell on arm
do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for arm is a better route than getting direct compilation to work? If you look on the GHC-on-ARM page[1], you'll find my attempts to bootstrap GHC 6.6 (the last version where cross-compiling GHC actually worked) to ARM.
The only success I had was in using jhc (not GHC) to generate portable C, which cross-compiled and ran fine (on my Nokia N810). GHC's C wouldn't compile out of the box, and I'm not sure what libraries or other hackery is required to make it do so.
Details of the failed cross-compilation and success with jhc are on the wiki page[1].
I'd love to have this working, but I have no time at all this term.
Braden Shepherdson shepheb
Have you considered trying to bootstrap ghc with jhc?
Regards,
Unfortunately this is not possible. The Haskell code in GHC relies on some GHC-only extensions. jhc can't compile GHC because it doesn't have those extensions. jhc can't even compile itself, since it too relies on those extensions. Braden Shepherdson shepheb