I will tell Stephen! I've added iOS as Tier 2 — I bet we can find a sponsor for a buildbot down the line — and I've added myself while I wait to hear from Stephen. It looks like the mailto links on the wiki (e.g. the names in the Platform Maintainers section) aren't working, by the way: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners.
Cheers Luke On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>wrote: > Great. Please thank Stephen too.. I don’t have his email.**** > > ** ** > > Just go ahead and modify **** > > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners**** > > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms**** > > ** ** > > I assume iOS will become a tier-2 platform?**** > > ** ** > > Simon**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Luke Iannini [mailto:lukex...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 30 August 2013 09:07 > *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones > *Cc:* Austin Seipp > > *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS**** > > ** ** > > Certainly! And I'd be happy to take on maintainership of GHC iOS if that's > what you mean — I've committed to a very large project using it so I'll be > maintaining it anyway : ). I'd guess Stephen would feel the same.**** > > ** ** > > And thanks so much for the kind words, it means the world! Thank you > infinitely for Haskell : ).**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Luke**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones < > simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:**** > > Should we update the “Platform maintainers” on > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC**** > > or the list of supported platforms on > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms?**** > > **** > > *From:* Haskell-Cafe [mailto:haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] *On Behalf > Of *Luke Iannini > *Sent:* 29 August 2013 21:56 > *To:* Haskell Cafe > *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS**** > > **** > > Stephen provided some more credits — thanks so much to all!**** > > **** > > Three connected projects concerning cross-compilation:**** > > **** > > *Registerised ARM support, added using David Terei's LLVM compiler back > end with Stephen Blackheath doing an initial ARMv5 version and LLVM patch > and Karel Gardas working on floating point support, ARMv7 compatibility and > LLVM headaches. Ben Gamari did work on the runtime linker for ARM.**** > > **** > > *General cross-compiling, with much work by Stephen Blackheath and Gabor > Greif (though many others have worked on this).**** > > **** > > *A cross-compiler for Apple iOS. iOS-specific parts were mostly Stephen > Blackheath with Luke Iannini on the Cabal patch, testing and supporting > infrastructure, also with assistance and testing by Miëtek Bak and Jonathan > Fischoff, and thanks to many others for testing; The iOS cross compiler was > started back in 2009 by Stephen Blackheath with funding from Ryan Trinkle > of iPwn Studios.**** > > **** > > Thanks to Ian Lynagh for making it easy for us with integration, makefile > refactoring and patience, and to David Terei for LLVM assistance.**** > > **** > > **** > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Luke Iannini <lukex...@gmail.com> wrote:* > *** > > Hi all!**** > > (in case you don't read /r/haskell : ))**** > > **** > > Stephen Blackheath and I are extremely happy to report that as of today, > GHC can natively build binaries for iOS devices and the iOS Simulator.**** > > **** > > You'll find everything you need here: > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS**** > > **** > > The short of it is you can use "ghc-ios myFiles.hs" to get a universal > ARMv7/ARMv7s/i386 static library to drop straight into an Xcode project.** > ** > > **** > > Stephen's already working on some wonderful FRP-powered games, I'm working > on a project called SpaceTime that I'll announce shortly, and you may now > all begin creating insanely great iOS software using the finest language in > the world : ).**** > > **** > > Stephen deserves the lion's share of the credit for this project — it's > been over 3 years in the making! Many thanks to Maxwell Swadling for > generalizing static library builds into a -staticlib flag for GHC, Carter > Schonwald for compilation guidance, and the venerable Austin Seipp for > reviewing and merging our patches.**** > > **** > > ** ** >
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