Sean,

That’s an interesting approach. Now, if I could only convince Xcode to use 
Docker in that way…

Manuel


> Sean Seefried <[email protected]>:
> 
> 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 
> <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 
> <http://lambdalog.seanseefried.com/drafts/docker-build-scripts.html>
> 
> Sean
> 
> On 9 December 2014 at 11:35, Greg Weber <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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
> 
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