[Haskell-iPhone] ghc-iphone and GHC 7.0.2

[Mark Wotton]

+1 to looking forward to Stephen porting GHC 7.
on the sidelines with pom-poms, mate. :)

mark

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone] <
likeliest.complexions.stephen at blacksapphire.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> The most likely thing is that some setting is wrong in the build.
> HaskellDraw is very old indeed, and the Xcode project will - at a minimum -
> require to be told to build using the 4.2 SDK.  Now - it looks like you are
> doing that, but check all the settings related to that.
>
> Now, on the version of Xcode I used, every single SDK version other than
> the latest did not work at all.  When I say "at all", I mean nothing about
> it worked.  So, Xcode is very fussy - or perhaps a better term for it might
> be "buggy".  You will need to fiddle.
>
> The second most likely thing is that a new version of Xcode has broken
> something new.
>
> I have not seen this particular error, as far as I remember.
>
> You could try building from source.  Then, at least, the GHC-iPhone stuff
> and the Xcode you're using will be the same version.
>
> I am about to start working on porting ghc-7.0 or 7.2 to iPhone, so if I
> possibly can, I will try very hard to avoid having to diagnose problems on
> the old version.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 07/06/11 12:39, David Pollak wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone]
>> <likeliest.complexions.stephen at blacksapphire.com
>> <mailto:likeliest.complexions.stephen at blacksapphire.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    David,
>>
>>    ghc-iphone doesn't use your native GHC for its own compiling, so you
>>    can use any version you like.  However, if you want to install
>>    GHC-iPhone from source, you will need to use ghc-6.10.4.
>>
>>    The source code is in the form of patches, which can be found in the
>>    patch.snowleopard directory at
>>
>>    http://projects.haskell.org/ghc-iphone/downloads/
>>
>>    Read the README file and GHC-iPhone.pdf and you should have (almost)
>>    enough information to build from source.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I am using the binary distribution with the draw example and get the
>> following errors (and then some):
>> build-iphone-haskell.sh running with ACTION= and
>> PLATFORM_NAME=iphonesimulator
>>
>>
>> Warning: Error parsing config file /Users/dpp/.cabal/config:77:
>>
>>
>> Parse of field 'libsubdir' failed (paths with spaces must use Haskell
>> String
>>
>>
>> syntax):
>>
>>
>> Warning: Using default configuration.
>>
>>
>> Resolving dependencies...
>>
>>
>> Configuring HaskellDraw-0.1...
>>
>>
>> Preprocessing executables for HaskellDraw-0.1...
>>
>>
>> Building HaskellDraw-0.1...
>>
>>
>> In file included from
>>
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.2.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFBase.h:42,
>>
>>
>>                  from
>>
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.2.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:38,
>>
>>
>>                  from
>>
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.2.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h:6,
>>
>>
>>                  from
>>
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.2.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIAccelerometer.h:9,
>>
>>
>>                  from
>>
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.2.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIKit.h:9,
>>
>>
>>                  from MainWindow.m:1:0:
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:51:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'StgPtr'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:108:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before
>> 'bdescr'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:163:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'void'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:174:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'void'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:187:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'void'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:198:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'void'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:219:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected ')' before 'n'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:223:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected ')' before 'n'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:235:0:
>>
>>
>>      error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'nat'
>>
>>
>> /opt/iphone/lib/ghc-6.10.4-iphone-simulator/include/Block.h:241:0:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>>    Steve
>>
>>
>>    On 07/06/11 10:53, David Pollak wrote:
>>
>>        Howdy,
>>
>>        I'm running GHC 7.0.2 on OS X Snow Leopard (64 bit)
>>
>>        Is it possible to get ghc-iphone to work with GHC 7?
>>
>>        Also, is there a source repository for the ghc-iphone code?
>>
>>        Sorry for the dumb/newbie questions.  It's the first week in a new
>>        environment (Haskell) and I'm feeling my way around and bumping
>>        my head
>>        a lot.
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>
>>        David
>>
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