[Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS

[Luke Iannini]

I will tell Stephen!

I've added iOS as Tier 2 — I bet we can find a sponsor for a buildbot down
the line — and I've added myself while I wait to hear from Stephen. It
looks like the mailto links on the wiki (e.g. the names in the Platform
Maintainers section) aren't working, by the way:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners.

Cheers
Luke


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Great.  Please thank Stephen too.. I don’t have his email.****
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> Just go ahead and modify ****
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> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners****
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> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms****
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> I assume iOS will become a tier-2 platform?****
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> Simon****
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> *From:* Luke Iannini [mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 30 August 2013 09:07
> *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones
> *Cc:* Austin Seipp
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS****
>
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> Certainly! And I'd be happy to take on maintainership of GHC iOS if that's
> what you mean — I've committed to a very large project using it so I'll be
> maintaining it anyway : ). I'd guess Stephen would feel the same.****
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> And thanks so much for the kind words, it means the world! Thank you
> infinitely for Haskell : ).****
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> Cheers****
>
> Luke****
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> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <
> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:****
>
>  Should we update the “Platform maintainers” on
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC****
>
> or the list of supported platforms on
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms?****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* Haskell-Cafe [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Luke Iannini
> *Sent:* 29 August 2013 21:56
> *To:* Haskell Cafe
> *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS****
>
>  ****
>
> Stephen provided some more credits — thanks so much to all!****
>
>  ****
>
> Three connected projects concerning cross-compilation:****
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>  ****
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> *Registerised ARM support, added using David Terei's LLVM compiler back
> end with Stephen Blackheath doing an initial ARMv5 version and LLVM patch
> and Karel Gardas working on floating point support, ARMv7 compatibility and
> LLVM headaches. Ben Gamari did work on the runtime linker for ARM.****
>
>  ****
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> *General cross-compiling, with much work by Stephen Blackheath and Gabor
> Greif (though many others have worked on this).****
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>  ****
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> *A cross-compiler for Apple iOS. iOS-specific parts were mostly Stephen
> Blackheath with Luke Iannini on the Cabal patch, testing and supporting
> infrastructure, also with assistance and testing by Miëtek Bak and Jonathan
> Fischoff, and thanks to many others for testing; The iOS cross compiler was
> started back in 2009 by Stephen Blackheath with funding from Ryan Trinkle
> of iPwn Studios.****
>
>  ****
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> Thanks to Ian Lynagh for making it easy for us with integration, makefile
> refactoring and patience, and to David Terei for LLVM assistance.****
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>  ****
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>  ****
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:*
> ***
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>  Hi all!****
>
> (in case you don't read /r/haskell : ))****
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>  ****
>
> Stephen Blackheath and I are extremely happy to report that as of today,
> GHC can natively build binaries for iOS devices and the iOS Simulator.****
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>  ****
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> You'll find everything you need here:
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS****
>
>  ****
>
> The short of it is you can use "ghc-ios myFiles.hs" to get a universal
> ARMv7/ARMv7s/i386 static library to drop straight into an Xcode project.**
> **
>
>  ****
>
> Stephen's already working on some wonderful FRP-powered games, I'm working
> on a project called SpaceTime that I'll announce shortly, and you may now
> all begin creating insanely great iOS software using the finest language in
> the world : ).****
>
>  ****
>
> Stephen deserves the lion's share of the credit for this project — it's
> been over 3 years in the making! Many thanks to Maxwell Swadling for
> generalizing static library builds into a -staticlib flag for GHC, Carter
> Schonwald for compilation guidance, and the venerable Austin Seipp for
> reviewing and merging our patches.****
>
>   ****
>
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