Re: [Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

Whatever happened to the JVM backend for GHC? That might actually be a relatively straightforward solution to the whole "interface to Java" problem. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

liamoc:

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On 19 April 2010 05:29, Don Stewart wrote:

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That's great info -- we do have an unregisterised ARM port of GHC in Debian, iirc. (And the LLVM backend can generate ARM code too)

Sounds good. With regards to LLVM, what dependencies does LLVM ARM code have? Android has gnu libraries not llvm, i don't know if that is okay.

A superior approach would be to compile haskell to Java or Dalvik bytecode (or even JVM bytecode if it doesn't use any JIT features; then we can compile that to dalvik bytecode), but this is obviously more work if we already have an ARM port.

More work also in that you need to port the runtime system to Java... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe