[Haskell-cafe] Building PanDoc for iOS target, but failed in Haskell Template requirement by 'aeson' package

[Carter Schonwald]

Patch Aeson locally so that it has no th module.  Then fix any transitive
breakages as you hit them.

General th support for cross compiling ghc is on the roadmap for getting
worked out in ghc, but it's really just part of generally improving ghc so
that there can be multi target cross compilation support.  This is because
th will run on your dev Mac, but me generating code for your iOS device!

Ghcjs actuall has such cross compilation, so some ideas could be borrowed
from there.

Hopefully it'll happen in the next year, though when and by whom is still a
bit unclear.

On Monday, December 23, 2013, Joe wrote:

> Hi, I've been trying to cross-compile PanDoc for iOS target for the last
> few days. I have been quite successfull from building stage-1 GHC for iOS
> target and many packages dependencies required by PanDoc until I see that
> 'aeson' package require Haskell Template which is not supported in cross
> compilation.
>
> As pointed in iOS CrossCompiling Wiki page<https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS>,
> it seems that Template Haskell doesn't work yet and still in wish list.
>
> Is there any hack or workaround to be able to cross-compile 'aeson'
> package for iOS target? Can I compile 'aeson' without Haskell Template?
> Anybody know when Template Haskell in CrossCompiling for iOS will be added?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Best regards,
> Joe
>
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