GHC (API?) question: GHC Core for Base libraries

[Christopher Done]

Here is the simplest possible way to print core in the Main.hs, by the way:

https://github.com/chrisdone/prana/commit/1303c7bb385a95eef7bb4752997897455853ca72#diff-28e5b5a88ae58fa953c1ad5ab5a7bfe0

That's taking GHC 8.0's Main.hs and patching it.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 10:50, Christopher Done <chrisdone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I use a different approach, using docker, and that's to use a patched
> `Main.hs` (https://github.com/chrisdone/prana/commits/master/ghc-8.0/Main.hs)
> and compile GHC with that patched file. It's a little unorthodox but
> has so far been highly effective.
>
> Here is a repo of a core interpreter I've been dabbling with:
> https://github.com/chrisdone/prana
>
> Here I have a Dockerfile that copies my edited version of `Main.hs`
> and builds base, ghc-prim and integer-gmp together into an isolated
> package database:
> https://github.com/chrisdone/prana/blob/master/Dockerfile.ghc-8.0#L56-L114
>
> My Main.hs writes a .prana file for every module. At the end of the
> Dockerfile, I export that to a .tar.gz archive:
> https://github.com/chrisdone/prana/blob/master/Dockerfile.ghc-8.0#L113
>
> Then I have a set of scripts
> https://github.com/chrisdone/prana/tree/master/scripts
> To build the image, and one to copy the libraries to the current
> directory under `libraries/`.
>
> Hope that's of some help!