[Haskell-cafe] Status of GHC as a Cross Compiler

[Ben Lippmeier]

No, GHC won't be a native cross compiler in 6.12. There are #ifdefs  
through the code which control what target architecture GHC is being  
compiled for, and at the moment it doesn't support the host  
architecture being different from the target architecture.

I did some work on the native code generator this year which cleans up  
some of this, but it still needs several more weeks put into it to  
make it a real cross compiler.

Cheers,
Ben.


On 24/09/2009, at 5:24 AM, Donnie Jones wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> glasgow-haskell-users is a more appropriate list...
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
>
> I went ahead and cc'd your message to the list.  Any replies please
> include John's email address as I don't think he is subscribed to the
> list.
>
> Hope that helps...
> --
> Donnie Jones
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:50 PM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This may be more appropriate for a different list, but I'm having a  
>> hard
>> time figuring out whether or not we're getting a cross compiler in  
>> 6.12 or
>> not. Can some one point me to the correct place in Traq to find this
>> information?
>>
>> /jve
>>
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