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

[Karel Gardas]

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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