I came to a similar conclusion. I recently put together a Dockerfile that builds GHC 7.8.3 as an ARM cross compiler
https://github.com/sseefried/docker-build-ghc-android I've also written a draft blog post about it. It might contain some inaccuracies but any feedback is welcome. (Please send to my email address.) http://lambdalog.seanseefried.com/drafts/docker-build-scripts.html Sean On 9 December 2014 at 11:35, Greg Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > As someone who started hacking on GHC last month I wanted to tell you that > there is to high an overhead to getting started and overall to contributing > to GHC. > > One thing that can help is to make getting to the point of compiling GHC a > much faster experience rather than starting off by dreading the process of > installing dependencies. I created a docker image that has everything > needed pre-installed. I do know that there are existing docker images for > running the GHC compiler, but I am not aware of any designed for hacking on > it. > > Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. The beauty is > that once you have GHC checked out, if you have docker installed you are a > single command away from having a working GHC environment: > > docker run --rm -i -t -v `pwd`:/home/ghc gregweber/ghc-haskell-dev > /bin/bash > > Once getting some feedback, I would like to document this on the wiki and > recommend it for Linux users (definitely for anyone that is familiar with > docker). > > > Thank you, > Greg Weber > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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