Hi, I need to update that page, I compile it with the ubuntu ghc and the ubuntu packaged ones. Can you tell me what libraries you are having issues with? the ./configure should tell you the names of any that I expected might be an issue, I'll actually update it to check and report on everything consistently. even ones I expect to come with ghc. If there are compatibility issues between versions that's a bug I can fix. (usually just a 'hiding' or explicit import will fix any such issue) as for the packages i've been testing with fgl,regex-compat,bytestring,binary,mtl,containers,unix,utf8-string,zlib,HsSyck,filepath,process,syb,old-time,pretty. Specific versions should not matter from anything back in ghc 7.2 days to now, if there is a bug where it won't compile with a version expected to be found in the wild, please feel free to report it. John On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki wrote:

Hello,

I tried compiling jhc from source (compiled version doesn't work on my system) but after several attempts I just couldn't find a working set of libraries for it. Can you specify which versions of libraries are known to work for jhc?

Best regards, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:20 PM, John Meacham wrote:

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After a hiatus, jhc 0.8.1 is released.

http://repetae.net/computer/jhc

- New license, jhc is now released under a permissive BSD style licence rather than the GPL. The license is compatible with that of ghc allowing code mixing between them.

- New library layout based around the standards, there are now haskell98 and haskell2010 packages that are guarenteed to be future proof strictly compatible with the respective standards. A package haskell-extras contains the additonal libraries from ghc's base.

- Native support for complex and vector SIMD primitives, exposed via type functions. for instance 'foo :: Complex_ Float32_' for hardware accelerated complex 32 bit floats for instance. These are unboxed only for now, full library Num support in the works.

- support for android as a target, you must install the android NDK to use this.

- Support for embedded ARM architectures imported from Kiwamu Okabe's branch allowing targeting bare hardware with no OS.

- user defined kinds, introduced with the 'kind' keyword otherwise looking like 'type' declarations.

- export/import lists now allow namespace qualifiers kind, class, type, or data to explicitly only import or export the specific named entity. As an extension allowed by this, classes and types no longer are in the same namespace and can share names.

- ForeignPtr's now have working finalizers when collected by the RTS.

- CTYPE pragma to allow promoting arbitrary C types to FFIable entities. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

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