Porting the GHC to GNU/Hurd

[Simon Marlow]

On 20 April 2005 17:34, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:39:08PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> On 10 April 2005 14:20, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>>> Is someone aware of any efforts to port the GHC to GNU/Hurd?
>>> If not, I'd like to give that a try.
>> 
>> No, and good luck!
> 
> I should be able to get it going using .hc files from i386-linux.
> Correct?
> But where can I find these files or how can I create them myself?  I
> was not (yet) able to find instructions about creating them in the
> "porting guide" and a web search also didn't reveal anything useful,
> yet. 

Just follow the instructions in section 10.2 of the Building Guide:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.htm
l#unregisterised-porting

that tells you how to build the .hc files and bootstrap from them on the
target machine.

Cheers,
	Simon