[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell-beginners] ghc and android

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Nathan Hüsken <nathan.huesken at posteo.de>wrote:

> > An additional issue:  ghci (and Template Haskell because it uses the
> > bytecode interpreter of ghci internally) currently(?) requires its own
> > custom linker instead of being able to use the system linker.  Said
> linker
> > has no support for ARM.  The correct fix for this is to redesign ghci so
> it
> > doesn't need its own linker; there has been some work in this direction,
> > but I don't know how complete it is, and it interacts with other issues
> > such as building Haskell libraries as shared objects.
>
> With ghci, the consol haskell shell is meant, correct?
>

Yes. (Actually, I think they got ghci working at some point, so this may
not be relevant.)  Also stuff like the hint and mueval libraries rely on
the bytecode interpreter/"ghci".


> I do not think I would need ghci on android, for what?
> I think I can live without template haskell.


You can for a while, but you might be surprised what libraries use TH
behind the covers.

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