On 06/06/11 15:57, Daniel Peebles wrote:
Isn't gcc just used for its assembler and object file creation, these
days, now that via-C is deprecated? Or are there other parts of it that
are needed?
The C compiler is needed to support foreign export and foreign import
"wrapper", and we also generate C fragments for some initialisation code
now (in 7.2.1) as part of some changes I made to the way module
initialisation is done. The C compiler is also used to support
-rtsopts, which requires compiling a small C file and linking it into
the binary.
It's sometimes handy to be able to compile C files with GHC, if you're
not using Cabal.
Cheers,
Simon
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:49, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
> I would be fantastic if XCode wasn't a dependency. ...
>
> Not to detract at all from the work of the wonderful GHC and Haskell
> Platform contributors in any way. For me it would just make it that
> much easier to convince mac-using friends to give Haskell a try.
The ghc team already bundle a copy of gcc in their Windows
distribution, precisely because it can be fiddly to get a working
copy of gcc for that platform otherwise. I wonder if they would
consider the possibility of shipping gcc on Mac too? (There may be
good reasons not to do that, but let's have the discussion.)
Regards,
Malcolm
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