[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

[Don Stewart]

Could we start documenting this on the wiki ?

It will be interesting to keep track of what we have tried,
what attempts failed and why.

-- Don

leaveye.guo:
> Thanks for sharing your experences.
> 
> I just tried to port GHC 6.8.3 to my TI Davincci (c6446) board by
> following the GHC Wiki Building/Porting page [1]. Both arm-compile
> and cross-compile version have failed unfortunately.
> 
> So, I turn to try compile an local GHC on linux.
> It takes me so many time.
> I can not finish building it before off work.
> 
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting#PortingGHCtoanewplatform
> 
> ------------------				 
> L.Guo
> 2008-07-02
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Jeremy Shaw
> At: 2008-06-28 02:57:38
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)
> 
> Cool!
> 
> By cross-compilation, I assume you mean, a version of GHC which runs
> on x86, but generates ARM assembly? Another option might be to use a
> nintendo DS emulator which has been configured to support more RAM and
> CPU power ?
> 
> A true cross-compiler would be nice though, because it will run much
> faster. GHC does have some support for cross-compilation, but in the
> current implementation, it is mostly (entirely?) there for
> bootstrapping. I have no idea how the ghc backend rewrite for 6.10
> will affect this.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> j.
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