Cross Compilation

[Gabor Greif]

Hi Trevor,

I have Cross+TH on my agenda, but not sure I can start that task
before 2013-05-31.

Here is a suggestion how to proceed, Stephen basically agreed that is
it a workable, albeit little elegant, plan:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-March/000660.html

Cheers,

    Gabor

On 4/3/13, Trevor Elliott <trevor at galois.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We're starting to update the HaLVM, which produces Xen binaries from
> haskell programs, to a more current version of GHC.  Currently, we build
> a stage1 compiler manually, with some patches to the RTS, and trick it
> into thinking that it's actually stage2 so that we can use template
> haskell.  Ideally, we would like to look at Xen as a cross compilation
> target, as that provides a bit of a better path for keeping up to date
> with changes in GHC.
>
> After reading some of the documentation on the developers wiki about
> cross compilation, it wasn't clear if template haskell is usable by a
> stage1 compiler built where target is not host, is this still the case?
>   If so, what sort of changes would need to be made to enable this, and
> is it something that we could contribute to?
>
> Galois has a little time allocated for updating the HaLVM, and would
> like to position ourselves so that staying up to date with GHC releases
> is easier in the future :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --trevor
>
>