[web-devel] [yesod][newbie] Yesod applications on foreign architectures

[Jack Henahan]

That could work nicely, I think. A local VM is no problem as long as the host uses a _normal_ platform. When I ran uname and saw AIX, I nearly did a spit take. :D Hopefully someday soon we'll have something like Heroku, and all these issues will be mostly meaningless. Maybe we can convince Y Combinator to fund such a project.

On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Daniel Patterson wrote:

> You can also get an instance from amazon for free for a year... after the year is up (assuming pricing hasnt changed) it'll be much cheaper to host via a VPS, but you can do that for probably 8$/month if you can build in a local VM (linking memory requirements are massive, so either you pay for a lot of memory that you only use when building, bring you server to a grinding halt as it hard swaps for 20 minutes, or build locally and deploy the binaries)
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> On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Jack Henahan wrote:
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>> Forgot to CC the list twice.
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: Jack Henahan <jhenahan at uvm.edu>
>>> Date: June 30, 2011 2:16:26 PM EDT
>>> To: Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [web-devel] [yesod][newbie] Yesod applications on foreign architectures
>>> 
>>> Hmm. I think it might just be simpler to buy some cheap hosting and get my university to direct my suffix to that IP. :D I'll definitely keep poking around for options in the meantime. I was just looking for any input before I did anything crazy on their servers. Thanks for all the help, Michael. If I find anything earth-shattering, I'll be sure to post it to the list.
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>>> On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
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>>>> Doh, I didn't pay close enough attention to the link I sent you. GHC
>>>> 6.4 definitely will not support Yesod, you need at least 6.12. Here
>>>> are two really bad options that come to mind:
>>>> 
>>>> * Compile on Windows, and run via wine. (Never tried.)
>>>> * Install a Linux virtual machine on the AIX machine.
>>>> 
>>>> MIchael
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jack Henahan <jhenahan at uvm.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Shall do. I thought a VM or local build might be the only way, and I hope not much has changes in AIX from 4.1 to 5.1. Dependency chasing is going to be the hardest part, really. I'm not sure how compatible Yesod and ghc-6.4 will be with one another. Perhaps I'll make a project of it. The environment has most of the necessary build tools, as far as I can see, so I can probably pull it off as long as I play nicely. There wouldn't happen to be a way to get a gcc config/makefile combo out of a Yesod project, would there? :D
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>>>>> On Jun 30, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
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>>>>>> It appears that there is GHC for AIX[1]. I think your best bet is to
>>>>>> set up a local system or virtual machine running AIX, build your
>>>>>> executables there and then distribute to the server. Though I'm not
>>>>>> sure how easy it is to get a virtual machine set up with AIX. I'd be
>>>>>> interested to hear how this goes, please keep us posted.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_64#powerpcaix
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Jack Henahan <jhenahan at uvm.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> I'd like to put a small Yesod application on my university webspace, but they're on AIX 4.1, while I'm on OS X.6. Can I build for their architecture (it's gotta be PPC or i386, I think) from where I am, or am I going to need to look for some other way around the issue?
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