Fwd: Trying to compile GHC under Ubuntu as a cross-compiler for ARM

[Carter Schonwald]

have you read the cross compiler directions on the wiki? :)
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CrossCompilation
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ARM


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:30 PM, eng. Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev <
varosi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Thanks, it continued with building until some LLVM errors.
> But will --with-gcc= arm based compiler will create GHC with:
> Host: x86 Ubuntu (where compilation should happen)
> Target: ARMv7 Linux ?
>
> Because I don't want to have GHC on my slow and restricted ARM machine.
>
> Best regards,
>   Vassil
>
>
> 2014-03-28 20:09 GMT+02:00 Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz>:
>
>
>> Last time I did that (crossing to ARMv8) I needed to use
>> --with-gcc=<cross compiler> option since for some reason I had not time to
>> debug setting target triple with --target was not enough. Speaking about
>> GHC HEAD as of new year eve (2014) time...
>>
>> But well, since it this is already some time I'm not sure this was to
>> cure issue like you have now, but at least you may give it a try...
>>
>> Karel
>>
>>
>> On 03/28/14 06:08 PM, eng. Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Could someone help me with compiling GHC under Ubuntu as a ARM
>>> cross-compiler?
>>>
>>> Currently I have done those steps:
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> sudo apt-get install autoconf alex happy libtool autopoint zlib1g-dev
>>> libncurses5-dev ghc-haddock
>>> sudo export PATH=~/.cabal/bin:$PATH
>>> sudo cabal install --reinstall happy alex terminfo libffi html
>>> regex-compat
>>>
>>> git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git
>>> cd ghc
>>>
>>> ./sync-all --no-dph get
>>> ./sync-all pull
>>> ./boot
>>> sudo ./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --enable-unregisterised
>>> cp mk/build.mk.sample mk/build.mk <http://build.mk>
>>>
>>> # here I enable quick-cross configuration
>>> sudo make
>>>
>>> and I get:
>>>
>>> echo "compiler_stage1_depfile_c_asm_EXISTS = YES" >>
>>> compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.c_asm.tmp
>>> mv compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.c_asm.tmp
>>> compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.c_asm
>>> inplace/bin/deriveConstants --gen-header -o
>>> includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/DerivedConstants.h --tmpdir
>>> includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/ --gcc-program "/usr/bin/gcc"
>>> --gcc-flag -fno-stack-protector --gcc-flag -Iincludes --gcc-flag
>>> -Iincludes/dist --gcc-flag -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header
>>> --gcc-flag -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header --gcc-flag -Irts
>>> --gcc-flag -fcommon --nm-program "/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-nm"
>>> /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-nm:
>>> includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/tmp.o: File format not recognized
>>> deriveConstants: readProcess: /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-nm
>>> "includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/tmp.o" (exit 1): failed
>>> make[1]: *** [includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/DerivedConstants.h]
>>> Error 1
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>>
>>> What I have done wrong? I did not understand the error message well, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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