On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Hong Yang
Just curious if Haskell can or will generate cross-platform executable code, e.g., generate code for Linux from a Windows machine.
Thanks,
Hong
I don't know about other compilers, but at least GHC is not quite there yet: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2010-June/018893.html In my experience, compiling for Windows on Linux, setting up the Windows release GHC itself for running on Wine is easy enough. Libraries can be a lot more fiddly - for instance my rather avant-garde msys-on-wine setup didn't play well with the configure script in the network package so I had to install it on msys-on-Windows. Be ready to set up your PATH yourself, fiddle with linker flags, and remember that the gcc version that comes with the current GHC Windows release is still 3.4.5.