Snow Leopard GHC

[Barney Stratford]

Latest update on getting GHC working 64-bit on Snow Leopard. I've been  
building 6.8.3, simply because it was the version I had running before  
so might give fewer problems.

To get the compiler working, apply this patch (which I borrowed from  
the Darcs repository):

diff -uit a/compiler/cmm/CLabel.hs b/compiler/cmm/CLabel.hs
--- a/compiler/cmm/CLabel.hs
+++ b/compiler/cmm/CLabel.hs
@@ -816,6 +816,10 @@
  pprDynamicLinkerAsmLabel :: DynamicLinkerLabelInfo -> CLabel -> SDoc

  #if x86_64_TARGET_ARCH && darwin_TARGET_OS
+pprDynamicLinkerAsmLabel CodeStub lbl
+  = char 'L' <> pprCLabel lbl <> text "$stub"
+pprDynamicLinkerAsmLabel SymbolPtr lbl
+  = char 'L' <> pprCLabel lbl <> text "$non_lazy_ptr"
  pprDynamicLinkerAsmLabel GotSymbolPtr lbl
    = pprCLabel lbl <> text "@GOTPCREL"
  pprDynamicLinkerAsmLabel GotSymbolOffset lbl

Make sure you have a working 32-bit GHC as well as libraries (libgmp,  
etc).for both 32 and 64-bit architectures. Then say

./configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin --host=x86_64-apple-darwin -- 
target=x86_64-apple-darwin
make

It will compile an x86_64 GHC for you, happily unaware that the GHC  
you're using for the build is a 32-bit one. The stage1 compiler is, of  
course, a 32-bit binary that produces 64-bit binaries.

I found that the resulting compiler can build itself (stage3) and can  
say Hello World, so it looks like it works correctly. I've still not  
got GHCi working, though.

I've managed to narrow down the source of the trouble with the linker  
in GHCi, and it looks like there are some bugs as well as missing  
parts, which is why it kept launching itself to the moon. Still  
working on that one: patch to follow. For now, you can at least  
compile your code and run it non-interactively.

Barney.