ghc on on macbook pro (fwd)

[Wolfgang Thaller]

On 4-Mar-06, at 11:07 AM, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:

> Does ghc work on the (intel) macbooks or does it need to be rebuilt?
> Will code compiled for the old macs work on the macbooks or does it  
> need to be recompiled?


Yes and no.
GHC, and programs compiled by it, should run without recompiling  
under Apple's "Rosetta" emulator, but that will be slower than on  
(powerpc) PowerBooks.

A port to Mac OS X on Intel is in progress and mostly finished. GHC  
6.6 will support building native Intel code for the new Macs; if  
there is sufficient demand, I could also backport this support to the  
GHC 6.4.x line once it's finished.

Cheers,

Wolfgang