[Haskell-cafe] I for one welcome our new Robotic Overlords

[Yves Parès]

> This means not only kernel should be the same (w.r.t. its
API/functionality) but also standard libc and other runtime libraries.

Yes, this is what I understood. I wasn't talking about portable *binaries*,
just about the ARM platforms which were efficient enough to run GHC.
I guessed one would have to re-compile her/his code with every platform (but
is that a big deal?).


2011/9/28 Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz>

> On 09/28/11 10:42 AM, Yves Parès wrote:
>
>> So currently, it's okay to make Haskell code that targets Android
>> smartphones, the Beagleboard, the Raspberry Pi or the OpenPandora as long
>> as
>> you use the development version of GHC?
>>
>
> No, it's not that easy. As cross-compiling is not working (yet!) then your
> development and runtime platform needs to be the same. This means not only
> kernel should be the same (w.r.t. its API/functionality) but also standard
> libc and other runtime libraries. This means that since Android is using
> different libc than let say your ARM development board with Ubuntu
> installed, then you are not able to develop Android binary on Ubuntu/ARM
> development system.
>
> So what you can do now is really just develop (or build) on ARM/Linux and
> deploy/run on the same ARM/Linux. Anyway, this is current stage, but IIRC
> people are working on making real cross-compilation working so this may
> change in the near future...
>
> Karel
>
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