[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

[Thomas Davie]

On 18 Apr 2009, at 22:44, Antoine Latter wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:03 AM,  <atze at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>            Utrecht Haskell Compiler -- first release, version 1.0.0
>>            ========================================================
>>
>>
>> The UHC team is happy to announce the first public release of the
>> Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). UHC supports almost all Haskell98
>> features plus many experimental extensions. The compiler runs on  
>> MacOSX,
>> Windows (cygwin), and various Unix flavors.
>>
>> Features:
>>
>>  * Multiple backends, including a bytecode interpreter backend and a
>>    GRIN based, full program analysing backend, both via C.
>>
>>  * Experimental language extensions, some of which have not been
>>    implemented before.
>>
>>  * Implementation via attribute grammars and other high-level tools.
>>
>>  * Ease of experimentation with language variants, thanks to an
>>    aspect-oriented internal organisation.
>>
>>
>> Getting started & Download
>> --------------------------
>>
>> UHC is available for download as source distribution via the UHC home
>> page:
>>
>>        http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC
>>
>> Here you will also find instructions to get started.
>>
>>
>> Status of the implementation
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> Like any university project UHC is very much work in progress. We  
>> feel
>> that it is mature and stable enough to offer to the public, but much
>> work still needs to be done; hence we welcome contributions by  
>> others.
>>
>> UHC grew out of our Haskell compiler project (called Essential  
>> Haskell
>> Compiler, or EHC) over the past 5 years. UHC internally is  
>> organised as
>> a combination of separate aspects, which makes UHC very suitable to
>> experiment with; it is relatively easy to build compilers for
>> sublanguages, or to generate related tools such as documentation
>> generators, all from the same code base. Extensions to the language  
>> can
>> be described separately, and be switched on or of as need arises.
>>
>>
>> Warning
>> -------
>>
>> Although we think  that the compiler is stable enough to compile
>> subtantial Haskell programs, we do not recommend yet to use it for  
>> any
>> serious development work in Haskell. We ourselves use the GHC as a
>> development platform! We think however that it provides a great  
>> platform
>> for experimenting with language implementations, language extensions,
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> Mailing lists
>> -------------
>>
>> For UHC users and developers respectively:
>>
>>        http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-users
>>        http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-developers
>>
>>
>> Bug reporting
>> -------------
>>
>> Please report bugs at:
>>
>>        http://code.google.com/p/uhc/issues/list
>>
>>
>> The UHC Team
>>
>>
>> --
>> Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\
>> Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \
>> Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW  : http://www.cs.uu.nl/ 
>> ~atze . /--|  \
>> Fax : +31-30-2513971 .... | Email: atze at cs.uu.nl ............ /   | 
>> ___\
>>
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>
> After running "./configure" on my Intel Mac (running OS 10.5.6 with
> GHC 6.10), I try to run "make uhc" and get the following:
>
>>>>>>
> $ make uhc
> src/ruler2/files.mk:34: build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> src/ruler2/files.mk:35: build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> mkdir -p build/shuffle ; \
> 	 --module=CDoc -dr  -Psrc/shuffle/ -o build/shuffle/CDoc.hs src/ 
> shuffle/CDoc.ag
> /bin/sh: --module=CDoc: command not found
> make: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk'.
> make: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk'.
> make EHC_VARIANT=`echo install/101/bin/ehc | sed -n -e
> 's+install/\([0-9_]*\)/bin/ehc.*+\1+p'` ehc-variant
> src/ruler2/files.mk:34: build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> src/ruler2/files.mk:35: build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> mkdir -p build/shuffle ; \
> 	 --module=CDoc -dr  -Psrc/shuffle/ -o build/shuffle/CDoc.hs src/ 
> shuffle/CDoc.ag
> /bin/sh: --module=CDoc: command not found
> make[1]: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk'.
> make[1]: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk'.
> make EHC_VARIANT_RULER_SEL="((101=HS)).(expr.base patexpr.base
> tyexpr.base decl.base).(e.int e.char e.var e.con e.str p.str)" \
> 	  ehc-variant-dflt
> src/ruler2/files.mk:34: build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> src/ruler2/files.mk:35: build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk: No such file
> or directory
> mkdir -p build/shuffle ; \
> 	 --module=CDoc -dr  -Psrc/shuffle/ -o build/shuffle/CDoc.hs src/ 
> shuffle/CDoc.ag
> /bin/sh: --module=CDoc: command not found
> make[2]: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-s-dep.mk'.
> make[2]: Failed to remake makefile `build/ruler2/files-ag-d-dep.mk'.
> make[1]: *** [ehc-variant] Error 2
> make: *** [install/101/bin/ehc] Error 2
> <<<<<
>
> This is fairly bewildering.  Am I the only one seeing errors like  
> this?

This looks like the same error I got – see bug report 1 in the bug  
database – the configure script reports that you have uuagc even if  
you don't – cabal install it, reconfigure, and you should be on your  
way.

Second thing to watch for – it depends on fgl, but this isn't caught  
by the configure script.

Thanks

Bob