[Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS

Mon Sep 2 01:58:26 CEST 2013

Hello Luke,

Thanks for the note. I'm testing on OS X 10.8.4, Xcode 4.6.3, and llvm-gcc
4.2.1
(I placed the scripts directory ghc-ios-scripts-master at the front of
PATH).
LVM Build is 2336.11.00.

I fetched GHC sources and tried to build using:

$ git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git
$ cd ghc
$ ./sync-all --no-dph get

$ perl boot # after creating mk/build.mk
$ ./configure --target=i386-apple-darwin11 --prefix=/usr/local/ghc-ios-sim/
$ make

# Fails saying terminfo -any is not available

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dominick,
> Hm, this should have been fixed by
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7700 .
>
> When you say you downloaded GHC, do you mean you cloned GHC HEAD (e.g. git
> clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ?) — the patches have only just
> landed : ).
>
> Also can you give us an idea of what your build environment is? (OS
> version, Xcode version etc)
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I followed the instructions on the link, downloaded ghc, created build.mk,
>> etc.,
>> and configured for ghc-ios-sim. But the make fails with the message below.
>> Tried installing terminfo (cabal install terminfo) but this didn't help...
>>
>> ghc $ make
>> ===--- building phase 0
>> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
>> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
>> ===--- building phase 1
>> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
>> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" check utils/ghc-pkg
>> A 'license-file' is not specified.
>> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure utils/ghc-pkg dist-install ""
>> --with-ghc="/Users/dsamperi/
>> bin/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"
>> --with-ghc-pkg="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg"
>> --disable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-vanilla
>> --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS="
>> -U__i686 -fno-stack-protector   " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="   "
>> --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
>> --configure-option=--host=i386-apple-darwin11
>> --with-gcc="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-gcc"
>> --with-ld="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-ld"
>> --configure-option=--with-cc="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-gcc"
>> --with-ar="/opt/local/bin/ar" --with-ranlib="ranlib"
>> --with-alex="/usr/bin/alex" --with-happy="/usr/bin/happy"
>> Configuring ghc-pkg-6.9...
>> ghc-cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>> terminfo -any
>> make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <
>> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Great.  Please thank Stephen too.. I don’t have his email.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Just go ahead and modify ****
>>>
>>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners****
>>>
>>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> I assume iOS will become a tier-2 platform?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Simon****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *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****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> And thanks so much for the kind words, it means the world! Thank you
>>> infinitely for Haskell : ).****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Cheers****
>>>
>>> Luke****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> 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:****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> *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.****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> *General cross-compiling, with much work by Stephen Blackheath and Gabor
>>> Greif (though many others have worked on this).****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> *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.****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> Thanks to Ian Lynagh for making it easy for us with integration,
>>> makefile refactoring and patience, and to David Terei for LLVM assistance.
>>> ****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>>  Hi all!****
>>>
>>> (in case you don't read /r/haskell : ))****
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> 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.**
>>> **
>>>
>>>  ****
>>>
>>> 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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