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March 2020

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Re: [Hugs-users] compiling hugs
by Anthony Clayden 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

> I realise this mailing list is long defunct, ... Hi Sam, defunct but not forgotten. (Sorry I took a while to see your post.) I've been able to compile some of Hugs. That's on a Windows machine with MinGW/MSys. I'll probably not be able to help much with GNU/Linux, but FWIW the bit I couldn't get to compile was exactly the FFI. Also I had quite a bit of trouble backtracking to Win32: mine is a 64-bit machine, but I had to run everything in 32-bit mode, because the config files didn't know anything about 64-bit. Re FFI: do you need to support foreign functions? What I did in the end was just take the FFI objects from the distro, not recompile. (Hack the makefile to make only the /src sub-dir, miss out /libraries, /docs.) I'm interested only in modifying the language/syntax/semantics, not building industrial-strength interfaces. > ... but I am nevertheless interested in compiling hugs on a modern GNU/Linux system, > primarily motivated by thoughts that are along the lines of > http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/748-Thoughts_on_bootstrapping_GHC Yes, I thought Joachim was both a hero and foolish for trying. At a guess, you don't need FFI to bootstrap enough of the language to get a compiler running with the Prelude(?) By all means I'm happy for you to bounce ideas around. AntC > However, I hit this compilation error and I was hoping somebody could > help me to get past it: cd libraries; make all make[1]: Entering directory '/home/fommil/tmp/hugs98-plus-Sep2006/libraries' cd ../cpphs; HUGSFLAGS=-P../libraries/bootlib HUGSDIR=../hugsdir ../src/runhugs -98 ../packages/Cabal/examples/hapax.hs configure --verbose --hugs --prefix='/usr/local' --scratchdir='../hugsdir/packages/cpphs' --with-compiler=../src/ffihugs runhugs: Error occurred ERROR "../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.hs" - Error while importing DLL "../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.so": ../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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compiling hugs
by Sam Halliday 22 Mar '20

22 Mar '20

Hi all, I realise this mailing list is long defunct, but I am nevertheless interested in compiling hugs on a modern GNU/Linux system, primarily motivated by thoughts that are along the lines of http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/748-Thoughts_on_bootstrapping_GHC However, I hit this compilation error and I was hoping somebody could help me to get past it: cd libraries; make all make[1]: Entering directory '/home/fommil/tmp/hugs98-plus-Sep2006/libraries' cd ../cpphs; HUGSFLAGS=-P../libraries/bootlib HUGSDIR=../hugsdir ../src/runhugs -98 ../packages/Cabal/examples/hapax.hs configure --verbose --hugs --prefix='/usr/local' --scratchdir='../hugsdir/packages/cpphs' --with-compiler=../src/ffihugs runhugs: Error occurred ERROR "../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.hs" - Error while importing DLL "../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.so": ../libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -- Best regards, Sam

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