hey Cherry, thanks for noting this. could you file a ticket on trac? (though adding it to the cross compiling notes on the wiki is great too)
cheers -Carter On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:32 PM, cherry <cherry.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the list, though I have been using GHC for a long time. Just > say Hello. > > I would like to share my experience about building GHC (7.7.20131112) > on/for mips64el linux, just in case anybody is interested, as it seems not > documented (on Wiki pages of Platforms, CrossCompiling, or Porting). Ignore > this email if it is not interesting or too trivial. > > It bootstrapped by cross compiling on x86_64 linux, with some tweaking on > mk/build.mk and the build process. In particular, I needed to specify > > export CPP="mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -E" > > otherwise the configure script just found to use the native "gcc -E" and > it failed in preprocessing rts C files. Also in mk/build.mk I forced > > GhcThreaded = NO > GhcWithInterpreter = YES # so, it can use TH and build happy > > The make process failed when trying to use ghc-stage2, but at that point > the stage 2 compiler is already built, that's enough. > > With this cross-compiled ghc-stage2, the native build on mips64el machine > was done without much interleaving. inplace/lib/unlit was x86_64 binary, > and needed to be rebuild. Also manually built alex and happy (and their > dependencies). Then it just went through. So, the new way of porting seems > just cross compiling followed by native compiling? Somewhat surprisingly, > GHCi is also working (forced it to be built), with system's dynamic linker. > > Is there need to write/update a wiki page for this? > > Thanks, > cherry > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > >
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