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The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04.2
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We are pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of the Glasgow
Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 5.04.2. This is a bugfix-only
release. For all the changes since 5.02.3, see the release notes:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/users_guide/release-5-04.html
How to get it
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The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
flavours of Linux and BSD, and in InstallShield form for Windows
folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available as a .tar.gz
which can be installed wherever you want. The source distribution is
also available from the same place.
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release.
Background
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Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
Haskell home page (see below).
On-line GHC-related resources
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Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
System requirements
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To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC
and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
* i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
* sparc-sun-solaris2
* alpha-dec-osf3
* powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X)
Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
* hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
* i386-unknown-solaris2
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what
ports work; it can be found at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/building/building-guide.html
Mailing lists
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We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
the web interfaces at
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
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