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

[John Van Enk]

Thanks. I'd heard rumors about a year ago that 6.12 might have a cross
compiler. I just wanted to check. :)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 14:50 -0400, John Van Enk 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?
>
> We're getting slightly closer but it's not even nearly there yet.
>
> You might have read about the changes in the native code generator
> towards building all backends on each platform. However there are a lot
> of other changes needed especially in the build system to make a full
> cross-compiler. I know some people have worked on this for ARM but
> there's nothing integrated yet.
>
> Duncan
>
>
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