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
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