On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:19 -0800, John Meacham wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has gotten ghc to work with IMCROSS[1]. I'm > Cross is a way to build native windows and mac osx apps on linux. quite > convinient for making distribution packages for those other platforms or > if you want to use linux's toolset during your build. > > basically, IMCROSS installs a couple new gccs with names like > /usr/local/bin/i386-mingw-gcc and so forth, is there some way to get ghc > to use said non-native compiler as its back end? It seems that ghc will > also need to build the libraries with different #define's as well to > reflect the target windows or mac environment.
It sounds like you would need to set ghc up as a cross-compiler. I'm told that this there is a fair bit of work required to get ghc to support cross-compilation. I expect Ian or Simon could provide more details on what would need doing if you're interested in pursuing it. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
