[Yhc] Re: How to build yhc as a bytecode compiler?

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Gabor,

The rough commands should just be

$ cd src/compiler98
$ yhc Main.hs

Then you will have Main.hbc which can be used with yhi as a haskell
compiler on any architecture.

Unfortunately that won't work at the moment. Yhc is not yet self
compiling, primarily because it fails a few important regression tests
(http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/report.html), directory
probably being the most important. Its not far off though, it just
needs someone to spend a bit of time implementing a few loose ends.

Hopefully sometime soon someone will go through the regression tests
again, and see how close we can get to 100% success.

Thanks

Neil


On 30/01/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Sent by Neil, since we're having moderation problems...)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I intend to port yhc to a range of architectures
> that do not have a ghc installed.
>
> On solaris8 I have ghc and I could build yhc without
> any problems. But now I need a non-native, bytecode
> version of yhc to be transported to the ghc-less architectures.
>
> How can I compile yhc using yhc to obtain the bytecode
> version? I basically expect the answer to be
>
> make # tp build yhc using ghc
>
> setenv YHC_BASE_PATH $PWD/inst
> setenv YHI $YHC_BASE_PATH/bin/yhi
> cd *somewhere*
> $YHI *options* *mainfile*
>
> Unfortunately I have not the slightest idea
> what to write for *somewhere* *options* and *mainfile* :-(
>
> Can somebody help me? Preferably I need the exact commands
> that work for the shell.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>      Gabor
>
>
> PS: once I have the exact build steps I will do my best
> to contribute the needed stuff to the makefiles for
> this type of compilation.
>