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 <malcolm.wall...@me.com <mailto:malcolm.wall...@me.com>> 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org <mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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