GHC 6.4.1 for Solaris

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Thu Jul 21 06:47:58 EDT 2005


On 20 July 2005 16:31, herington, dean wrote:

> I'm trying to deploy GHC 6.4.1 on a Solaris 5.9 machine.  I installed
> the binary release (in-place) from 
>
<http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.4.1-sparc-sun-solaris
2>
>
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.4.1-sparc-sun-solaris2
>
<http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.4.1-sparc-sun-solaris
2.tar.bz2>
> .tar.bz2, but it needs libreadline.so.5, libncurses.so.5, and
> libgmp.so.3, which my machine lacks.  How should I obtain these
> shared libraries?       

On Solaris, the only way is to download, build and install each one.

Cheers,
	Simon


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