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,
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Conrad Meyer