Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-05-10 Thread Scott Weeks
Thanks for your response, I'll follow your saga and hopefully learn a bit more about GHC's guts in the process. On 07/05/2006, at 4:05 AM, Reilly Hayes wrote: You'll get a better response to this on the glasgow-haskell-users list. I'm cross-posting my reply. I'm brand new to hacking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-05-06 Thread Reilly Hayes
You'll get a better response to this on the glasgow-haskell-users list. I'm cross-posting my reply. I'm brand new to hacking on GHC, but I've been working on this in my pitifully meagre spare time. The actual expert is Wolfgang Thaller, but he doesn't seem to be around the lists

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Weeks
Hi All, Does anyone know if there's been any headway on this? If there's not a port available, where do I go about finding the hc files? Could I compile on a windows or linux x86 box and use the generated hc files to bootstrap? Cheers, Scott On 22/03/2006, at 7:09 AM, Deling Ren wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-03-22 Thread Thomas Davie
On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Deling Ren wrote: Hi there, Has anyone made any attempt to port GHC to Mac OS X on x86? Wolfgang Thaller’s binary package runs over Rosetta but slow (not surprising). It can not be used to compile a native version either (I got some errors related to machine

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-03-22 Thread Deling Ren
It's not supported on i386 platform yet :( On Mar 22, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Deling Ren wrote: Hi there, Has anyone made any attempt to port GHC to Mac OS X on x86? Wolfgang Thaller’s binary package runs over Rosetta but slow (not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-03-22 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, DP will support the i386 build as soon as Wolfgang makes his changes available. As I understand, from earlier messages on one of the ghc* lists, this is almost done for the pre-6.6 branch, but not yet backported to the 6.4.x branch. Also, DP uses a binary bootstrap compiler to build ghc,

[Haskell-cafe] Porting GHC to OSX86?

2006-03-21 Thread Deling Ren
Hi there, Has anyone made any attempt to port GHC to Mac OS X on x86? Wolfgang Thaller’s binary package runs over Rosetta but slow (not surprising). It can not be used to compile a native version either (I got some errors related to machine registers). I tried to do a bootstrap but can't