ghc-ios 7.8 working build

[Dominick Samperi]

[Luke: forgot to forward to list, sorry for the duplicates]

There are two issues:

1. When I build Counter.a I see lots of messages from libtool saying
"has no symbols",
    for example:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool:
for architecture: armv7s file:
/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10-ghc-7.8.20140129/rts-1.0/libHSrts_thr.a(Sanity.thr_o)
has no symbols

2. I have not (yet) joined the developer program since I have no plans to deploy
    to the app store, so instead I have been following the
instructions here to deploy
    to my own device:
http://www.sysrage.net/guides/ios-programming/building-and-running-ios-applications-without-a-paid-developer-license

Following these instructions I am able to copy  HaskellCounter (my name for
your test app) to my device, and I see the HaskellCounter icon, but when I
start the app I just see a blank screen. Looking at

Counter.hs this is not too surprising, as I see no code that would update the
Single View screen? I'm not sure where the output of putStrLn goes when
an app is run on the device.

Dominick


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dominick and all,
>
> That's great news!
>
> I've created a README here:
> https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/blob/master/README.md
>
> Note that the binary posted above is only for the device. I'll post the
> simulator version shortly along with instructions on how to create fat
> libraries that contain both simulator and device code.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or issues!
>
> Very best
> Luke
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Luke,
>>
>> It installed without problems under Mac OS X Mavericks and reports the
>> version correctly. If there is some documentation that you can point me to
>> I will test on my simulator and iPhone.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dominick
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I believe I've worked around the issues with make binary-dist and
>> > cross-compilation.
>> >
>> > This should be a working binary for iOS devices
>> >
>> > https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/releases/download/7.8-rc1-device/ghc-7.8.20140129-arm-apple-ios.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > Please try ./configure && make install (it should live happily next to
>> > your
>> > current ghc as arm-apple-darwin10-ghc) and let me know so we can have a
>> > build ready for 7.8 RC2!
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Luke
>> >
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