[Haskell-cafe] How to install GhC on a Mac without registering?

[Simon Marlow]

On 06/06/11 15:57, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> Isn't gcc just used for its assembler and object file creation, these
> days, now that via-C is deprecated? Or are there other parts of it that
> are needed?

The C compiler is needed to support foreign export and foreign import 
"wrapper", and we also generate C fragments for some initialisation code 
now (in 7.2.1) as part of some changes I made to the way module 
initialisation is done.  The C compiler is also used to support 
-rtsopts, which requires compiling a small C file and linking it into 
the binary.

It's sometimes handy to be able to compile C files with GHC, if you're 
not using Cabal.

Cheers,
	Simon


> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com
> <mailto:malcolm.wallace at me.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:49, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
>
>      > I would be fantastic if XCode wasn't a dependency.  ...
>      >
>      > Not to detract at all from the work of the wonderful GHC and Haskell
>      > Platform contributors in any way. For me it would just make it that
>      > much easier to convince mac-using friends to give Haskell a try.
>
>     The ghc team already bundle a copy of gcc in their Windows
>     distribution, precisely because it can be fiddly to get a working
>     copy of gcc for that platform otherwise.  I wonder if they would
>     consider the possibility of shipping gcc on Mac too?  (There may be
>     good reasons not to do that, but let's have the discussion.)
>
>     Regards,
>         Malcolm
>
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