[Haskell-cafe] GHC LLVM ARM Cross Compilation

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Nathaniel Neitzke <nightski at gmail.com>wrote:

> I saw the Google Summer of Code project for using LLVM to cross compile for
> other architectures such as ARM.  Professionally I write embedded Linux code
> that targets ARM processors such as the TI DaVinci DM355 and am
> very intrigued by the potential use of Haskell for future projects.
>
> If I was interested in attempting to add support for LLVM ARM
> cross-compilation, are there any thoughts on what parts would have to be
> modified to do so?  Or has work already been conducted in this area?
>

I'm not a GHC hacker, but my understanding goes like this:
  1) the version of ghc in darcs has support for using LLVM to generate code
on at least x86.
  2) GHC has never really work as a cross compiler, but there is an active
push to change this.

The GHC wiki is here:
  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/

If you want to get started on understanding the source and hacking on it,
there are pages for that:
  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GettingStarted
  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions

Probably the best thing you can do is get on the GHC mailing list:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/mailing-lists-GHC.html

Good luck!
Jason
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