I could try with building GHC on Windows as a cross-compiler for ARM if there is someone to help with building GHC.
2014-04-01 16:45 GMT+03:00 Carter Schonwald <[email protected]>: > Hey roman! > If you get stuck getting ghc to build on windows, please ask for help on > the ghc mailing lists and/or on the #ghc channel on freenode. > Just having more folks that regularly try to build and use ghc on windows > would be huge. > There's also countless ways to contrib To ghc too. > > On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Roman Kuznetsov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> -- sorry for incomplete email - typing from mobile is not easy :) >> >> I would like to participate in GHC on Windows. But I am a normal windows >> developer and don't know much of that rather weird (to me) tool chain used >> in this case. I frankly tried a few times before - every time with the same >> result - I never get to the point, but trying to understand just how to >> build it. I know there is a wiki, etc. >> >> But my question (and the reason I write here): is it possible to have >> some kind of mini-course, a crush-course on developing GHC on Windows (as >> well as on other platforms) - video course ... this is what comes to mind >> after all these Coursera, Pluralsight, etc. >> >> You could say - there is a wiki. But that's not enough. Maybe it's just >> me... I will take another analogy. Even though I'm coding for Windows >> primarily, I am a linux user. So, I switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux >> recently which was possible due to the quality of their wiki documentation >> (Arch is known to not be as user friendly as *buntu like systems). >> >> Sorry for not referring to any concrete problems, I just tried stating >> what I think didn't let me start working with that. >> >> /Roman >> >> On 01 апр. 2014 г., at 15:26, "Carter Schonwald" < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Kyle, we need you to help us with windows support! :-) >> >> On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Simon Peyton Jones <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> A couple of poor assumptions are made here. >> >> >> >> I’m not sure where “here” is. In my email I specifically said exactly >> what you are saying (only I was not as eloquent as you). >> >> >> >> What we need is some developers who are willing to give some love and >> support to the Windows version of GHC. And *they* really are thin on >> the ground, unfortunately. >> >> >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kyle >> Van Berendonck >> *Sent:* 01 April 2014 13:54 >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: Haskell Support on Windows (Simon Peyton Jones) >> >> >> >> A couple of poor assumptions are made here. >> >> The first is that the userbase of GHC on Windows is poor. This is false. >> In fact, the poor state of Windows is mentioned on #haskell more frequently >> as of late. In the last week I've talked almost every day to (different) >> people who have had Windows woes with using GHC. The hacker-base isn't here >> at the moment - I agree, but the user-base most certainly is. Could this be >> a problem with the demographic, or could it just be that Windows >> development isn't inviting? The build system and default test failures >> in-particular are a source of discouragement. >> >> The second assumption is that GHC/Haskell will be worth a dime in the >> RealWorld without Windows as a primary tier platform. I'm going to put a >> crude guess that given the overwhelming magnitude of C#/F# coming up on my >> local careers portal that there's far more industry on Windows than on OSX >> or Linux. Those are all the businesses where the probability that they will >> ever touch Haskell goes from `probably not right now` to `impossible`. Let >> me also remind you that Windows still holds 89.2% of operating system >> market share ie the people that hackers and developers actually have to >> deploy their applications to. >> >> Sorry to sound fumey, but there's all this suggesting that everyone would >> have a better day if we dropped Windows (let's be honest, if it wasn't a >> primary tier platform nobody would have fixed it for 7.8), but I doubt few >> of the people who think it's a "great idea" or sslt have actually thought >> through whether it's the best thing for Haskell or just the best thing to >> get 7.8 into their hands a couple weeks sooner. >> >> Regards. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >> _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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