IMCROSS and ghc

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:19 -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has gotten ghc to work with IMCROSS[1]. I'm
> Cross is a way to build native windows and mac osx apps on linux. quite
> convinient for making distribution packages for those other platforms or
> if you want to use linux's toolset during your build.
> 
> basically, IMCROSS installs a couple new gccs with names like
> /usr/local/bin/i386-mingw-gcc and so forth, is there some way to get ghc
> to use said non-native compiler as its back end? It seems that ghc will
> also need to build the libraries with different #define's as well to
> reflect the target windows or mac environment.

It sounds like you would need to set ghc up as a cross-compiler. I'm
told that this there is a fair bit of work required to get ghc to
support cross-compilation. I expect Ian or Simon could provide more
details on what would need doing if you're interested in pursuing it.

Duncan