Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC Platform-independent object files

Yes, Core would be a good format. AFAIK, GHC only supports generating Core, but not reading Core. On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

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That would work, but seems too limitative. I was hoping more for some sufficiently-obfuscated intermediate files

On 27 July 2017 at 20:26, Hugo Pacheco wrote: that

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GHC could read (e.g., .hc).

I think they're all OS/platform specific (and then you have to deal with registering the libraries with ghc-pkg).

Maybe it's possible to distribute Core and have that compiled by GHC; it would at least be partially obfuscated compared to the original Haskell.

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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On 27 July 2017 at 19:30, Hugo Pacheco wrote:

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Hi cafe,

I am wondering if there is any easy way to distribute a Haskell module/library in a platform-independent manner without revealing the source code, that can be seamlessly linked with GHC? I am thinking about some sort of GHC object files or any intermediate representation such as C,LLVM or Haskell Core. My use case would be to release a small utility module as part of a student assignment without revealing its source code to students.

It's probably overkill, but maybe a Docker image containing the compiled libraries and have the students do their work within the image as well?

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Thanks, hugo

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