On 24 March 2005 10:11, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

"Matthew M. Munz" <mmm92@pantheon.yale.edu> writes:

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Is it possible to compile and run Haskell programs on QNX? [1] [1] http://www.qnx.com/

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From a brief glance at the QNX website, it appears to support POSIX, GNU make tools, and gcc-compatible C compilers. Thus it should be possible to get either Hugs or nhc98 up and running very quickly, maybe even straight out of the box, on all architectures.

It is also likely that ghc could be persuaded to bootstrap (with a little work) on at least PowerPC and ix86 platforms, since the native codegen for those architectures is well maintained - MIPS, SH-4, StrongARM, and Xscale would be much more of a challenge for ghc though!

Unregisterised C compilation (compiling via plain ANSI C) is well supported in GHC. Some of our ports use unregisterised C only, in fact. Compiling GHC on an "unsupported" architecture is just a matter of following the step-by-step porting instructions in the building guide: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.htm l which many people have successfully done. Maybe this will help dispell the myth that GHC is not portable :-) Cheers, Simon