pierric
Hi. Everyone. Recently an idea came up to my mind that I want to port nhc to my nds(a handheld game console). There is a already a tiny linux system on it. So the problem now is to cross compile the nhc on my laptop.
Sounds like a fun project. I assume that the Linux system on your Nintendo includes at least the Gnu C compiler, a filesystem, and a few shell utilities? (If not, then you won't get very far.) And actually, you are unlikely to need your laptop to prepare the build for NDS, at least if nothing goes wrong.
Comparing with other three haskell system, I think nhc is the most lightweight, and it can be built from bootstrap.
Yes, it should be fairly straightforward.
But sadly I don't know where to begin. Can someone give any help? some detail steps or maybe some key points that I must know.
The easiest place to begin is by downloading a tarfile distribution from http://haskell.org/nhc98/download.html Transfer it onto your DS machine, unpack it, then follow the usual installation instructions: cd nhc98-1.18 ./configure --buildwith=gcc make basic If there are any errors during the build, then ask for more help on this list (or the nhc-bugs@ list). The most likely thing to break is that the CPU type is unknown, in which case a few tweaks to some C preprocessor conditionals is all that is usually required to fix it.) Regards, Malcolm