Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to install GhC on a Mac without registering?

On 06/06/11 15:57, Daniel Peebles wrote:

Isn't gcc just used for its assembler and object file creation, these days, now that via-C is deprecated? Or are there other parts of it that are needed?

The C compiler is needed to support foreign export and foreign import "wrapper", and we also generate C fragments for some initialisation code now (in 7.2.1) as part of some changes I made to the way module initialisation is done. The C compiler is also used to support -rtsopts, which requires compiling a small C file and linking it into the binary. It's sometimes handy to be able to compile C files with GHC, if you're not using Cabal. Cheers, Simon

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Malcolm Wallace mailto:malcolm.wallace@me.com> wrote:

On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:49, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

> I would be fantastic if XCode wasn't a dependency. ... > > Not to detract at all from the work of the wonderful GHC and Haskell > Platform contributors in any way. For me it would just make it that > much easier to convince mac-using friends to give Haskell a try.

The ghc team already bundle a copy of gcc in their Windows distribution, precisely because it can be fiddly to get a working copy of gcc for that platform otherwise. I wonder if they would consider the possibility of shipping gcc on Mac too? (There may be good reasons not to do that, but let's have the discussion.)

Regards, Malcolm

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