[Haskell-beginners] Q 2 of 2: GUI and turnkey compiler?

[Giacomo Tesio]

I'm wondering why there's no tool that build an EXE that contains
everything is needed. statically linking anything that is required... is
there any problem with ghc here?


Giacomo


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:28 PM, emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever he said. All I know is that the last time I copied a binary
> across to another box it failed with a "missing libgmp.so" message! Beware!!
>
> On 31 May 2013 15:13, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I tried that too... but I think I fell foul to a missing library for the
>>> arbitrary length arithmetic. can't remember the name of it off-hand though.
>>
>>
>> libgmp? I think there are ways to make that get statically linked as
>> well, although various platforms (Debian derivatives, mostly) strongly
>> discourage doing this, to the extent that they modify their packaged ghc to
>> force a dependency on the system gmp library (and, somewhat ironically, are
>> also the ones most prone to having no or an incompatible version installed
>> at runtime).
>>
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