Unable to compile ghc-8.2.2 with ghc-8.4.3

[Ben Gamari]

Indeed, GHC can indeed produce (very slow) C. This is known as unregisterised mode [1]. That being said, I'm not sure that helps you with the task at hand. Afterall, you still would need a haskell compiler to build your unregisterised compiler.

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Unregisterised

On August 22, 2018 12:12:27 PM EDT, Sam Halliday <sam.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>I'm not sure it is necessary to go back that far. Vitaly pointed out
>that any version of GHC could produce the "minimal C" output, which
>can be ported to another platform that doesn't have a GHC, as the
>bootstrap. I'm not entirely sure how to generate that output, mind
>you.
>
>On 22 August 2018 at 17:05,  <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (I haven't actually done this, but:) If you want to be able to
>install GHC without any GHC binary, I think you'd have to start with an
>ancient version of GHC which wasn't itself written in Haskell, and
>build successive versions (skipping as many as possible) until you had
>a GHC which supported all the language features the most-recent version
>requires.
>>
>> If you did embark on this, it would be nice if you could report back
>with a minimal number of steps it takes to get to current GHC!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>> El 22 ago 2018, a las 06:01, Sam Halliday <sam.halliday at gmail.com>
>escribió:
>>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> What is the recommended way to build old versions of GHC? The
>>> haskell.org binaries for, e.g. 7.8.3, do not work on my machine. If
>I
>>> attempt to recompile ghc 7.8.3 with the haskell.org binary, I get
>>> linkage errors.
>>>
>>> Actually I'd love to be able to bootstrap a build without any ghc
>>> installed... that would solve the problem. I heard about the
>"phase0"
>>> approach from Vitaly Bragilevsky at his Lambdaconf talk this year.
>But
>>> I've been unable to find any documentation about it.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 22 August 2018 at 12:30, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
>wrote:
>>>> In general we don't support bootstrapping older GHCI with newer
>GHC.
>>>> However, you may be able to hack something together by manually
>tweaking
>>>> bounds.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> - Ben
>>>>
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