[Haskell-beginners] GHC compiling for different platforms

[Felipe Lessa]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:09:30AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > compared to virtualization, including being able to test
> > graphical apps (OpenGL, anyone?) with the very same hardware.
>
> There seems to be some support for OpenGL in VirtualBox these days[1].
>  I have no experience with it myself though.

That's why I said "very same hardware", because in a chroot there
are no additional software layers.

> The big limitation with a chroot is of course that the surrounding
> system puts limits on what you can run in the chroot, though for many
> uses that doesn't really matter.

Yes, of course, but for cross-compiling you don't really care
about that.  However if you cared, you could also try FreeBSD
jails, but I have never used them. :)

--
Felipe.