[Haskell-iPhone] Can anyone help me test GHC-iOS compiler?

[Carter Schonwald]

Why is llvm 3.0 required here? Could you enlighten me please?

On Sunday, August 11, 2013, Luke Iannini wrote:

> Thanks! That’s all identical to my procedure except that I’m using 10.9
> DP5/Xcode 5 DP5, so I guess that must play some role, though I’m not sure
> what.
>
> Re: iPod Touch authorization, if you haven’t tried in a few days or so,
> Apple’s now claiming everything’s back online finally
> https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone] <
> likeliest.complexions.stephen at blacksapphire.com> wrote:
>
> Luke,
>
> I didn't experience anything like you described. Here's as much detail as
> I can think of about what I did:
>
>  * Mac OS/X 10.8.4
>
>  * Xcode 4.6
>
>  * ghc-7.6.3 downloaded from http://haskell.org/ghc as the bootstrap
> compiler
>
>  * llvm - 3.0 built from source downloaded off the llvm site:
>
> Low Level Virtual Machine (http://llvm.org/):
>   llvm version 3.0
>   Optimized build.
>   Built Jan 31 2012 (09:33:35).
>   Host: x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0
>   Host CPU: penryn
>
>   Registered Targets:
>     alpha    - Alpha [experimental]
>     arm      - ARM
>     ... and others ...
>
> Before I had a problem with not enough memory but I bought some more. So I
> got a cross compiler built, but wasn't able to test it, because I can't
> authorize my iPod Touch for development at the moment (Apple systems are
> down). So I can't verify that it produces iOS executables that work.
>
> The latest commit in the git log for GHC HEAD was this:
>
> commit e8aa8ccba0c40884765281b21ff8f4**411802dd41
> Author: Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
> Date:   Fri Aug 2 15:47:03 2013 +0100
>
>     Implement "roles" into GHC.
>     ...
>
> I patched it as attached here (same patch as in my last email).
>
> The procedure I used was exactly the one described at
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/**ghc/wiki/Building/**CrossCompiling/iOS<http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS>
>
> Thanks for your work on this! That problem you're having is pretty weird!
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 11/08/13 20:14, Luke Iannini wrote:
>
> And the truly final word for the moment : ) —
> I built a tool to partially automate the indentation workaround for LLVM
> 3.0 and it yields the same "co-processor offset out of
> range"/"unsupported relocation on symbol LCPI65_0" errors LLVM 3.3/3.4
> did when it finally gets to integer-simple/GHC/Integer/**Type.hs.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com
> <mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     OK! So just to summarize:
>     Building GHC HEAD with LLVM 3.0 or 3.2 (using GHC 7.6.3 as the
>     bootstrap) on OS X 10.9 DP5/Xcode 5 DP5 exhibits very strange
>     behavior wherein layout-based code along with mixed-tabs-and-spaces
>     code fails to parse correctly, with issues in hundreds of files in
>     the GHC HEAD tree.
>     I don't have a 10.8 machine to check if this is a 10.9 exclusive
>     issue, so I'd love if someone can try using these binaries to build
>     GHC HEAD:
>     http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/**clang+llvm-3.0-x86_64-apple-**
> darwin11.tar.gz<http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/clang+llvm-3.0-x86_64-apple-darwin11.tar.gz>
>
>     Building GHC HEAD with LLVM 3.3 or 3.4 works great as a regular
>     compiler with the 10.9 workarounds I outlined in another thread, but
>     fails when compiling as a cross-compiler (./configure
>     --target=arm-apple-darwin10) with these errors:
>     https://gist.github.com/**lukexi/2b129f34fa027172c5ee<https://gist.github.com/lukexi/2b129f34fa027172c5ee>
>
>     So I'm between a rock and a hard place at the moment.
>
>     The only (very tedious and slow) workaround I've found for the
>     3.0/3.2 bug is to manually expand tabs to spaces, and to transform
>     do x
>         y
>     into
>     do
>          x
>          y
>     (similarly for where and let blocks)
>
>     Cheers
>     Luke
>
>
>     On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Arg
>
>
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