[Haskell-cafe] Re: Opinion about JHC

This worked for me, though that was quite a while ago. Presumably it still works. I don't remember doing any magic, just using the Maemo cross-compiler to build the output of jhc. The only annoying part was having to build with jhc outside the scratchbox environment and then build the C output inside the scratchbox. This is necessary because jhc is not self-hosting and I couldn't get GHC to build for Maemo. The attempts to build GHC (back in the 6.8.2 days -- supposed cross-platform bootstrapping works again in 6.12, maybe it'll work now) and the success with JHC are documented at [1]. Actually, I just looked and Dustin Weese succeeded where I had failed, and got an unregisterized 6.8 to bootstrap to Maemo. I've since learned ARM(v4) assembly for an embedded systems course, I might look into writing a properly registerized ARM back-end for GHC 6.12, now that the back-end overhaul is complete. That's definitely a Copious Free Time project, since I don't intend to be doing any ARM dev in Haskell or otherwise. Braden Shepherdson shepheb [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ArmLinuxGhc Gour wrote:

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:37:59 -0800

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> "John" == John Meacham wrote:

Hi John,

John> Yup. This was a major goal. compiling for iPhones and embedded John> arches is just as easy assuming you have a gcc toolchain set up. John> (at least with the hacked iPhone SDK.. I have never tried it with John> the official one)

Is there any info whether it works on maemo platform?

Sincerely, Gour

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