On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Nathaniel Neitzke
I saw the Google Summer of Code project for using LLVM to cross compile for other architectures such as ARM. Professionally I write embedded Linux code that targets ARM processors such as the TI DaVinci DM355 and am very intrigued by the potential use of Haskell for future projects.
If I was interested in attempting to add support for LLVM ARM cross-compilation, are there any thoughts on what parts would have to be modified to do so? Or has work already been conducted in this area?
I'm not a GHC hacker, but my understanding goes like this: 1) the version of ghc in darcs has support for using LLVM to generate code on at least x86. 2) GHC has never really work as a cross compiler, but there is an active push to change this. The GHC wiki is here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ If you want to get started on understanding the source and hacking on it, there are pages for that: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GettingStarted http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions Probably the best thing you can do is get on the GHC mailing list: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/mailing-lists-GHC.ht... Good luck! Jason