[Haskell-cafe] GHC Platform-independent object files

[Hugo Pacheco]

Yes, Core would be a good format.
AFAIK, GHC only supports generating Core, but not reading Core.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> > <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > www.di.uminho.pt/~hpacheco
> >> >
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> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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