[Haskell-cafe] GHC Platform-independent object files

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 27 July 2017 at 20:26, Hugo Pacheco <hpacheco at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would work, but seems too limitative.
> I was hoping more for some sufficiently-obfuscated intermediate files that
> GHC could read (e.g., .hc).

I think they're all OS/platform specific (and then you have to deal
with registering the libraries with ghc-pkg).

Maybe it's possible to distribute Core and have that compiled by GHC;
it would at least be partially obfuscated compared to the original
Haskell.

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> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 27 July 2017 at 19:30, Hugo Pacheco <hpacheco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi cafe,
>> >
>> > I am wondering if there is any easy way to distribute a Haskell
>> > module/library in a platform-independent manner without revealing the
>> > source
>> > code, that can be seamlessly linked with GHC?
>> > I am thinking about some sort of GHC object files or any intermediate
>> > representation such as C,LLVM or Haskell Core.
>> > My use case would be to release a small utility module as part of a
>> > student
>> > assignment without revealing its source code to students.
>>
>> It's probably overkill, but maybe a Docker image containing the
>> compiled libraries and have the students do their work within the
>> image as well?
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > hugo
>> >
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