I had no problems building gmp-free GHC 7.4.1 for x86 Solaris
(Openindiana to be precise) and Mac OS X. Not as a part of Haskell
Platform, just compiler itself.
To be precise, there was a little problem under Solaris: make failed
complaining about loop in compilation. I removed this check from
i would really like to be able to ship haskell based linux binaries,
but the gmp dependency makes it virtually impossible. so what version
of host os, host ghc, and haskell-platform sources are known to build
a working compiler?
any reason why the dependency on gmp is static? are the interfaces
can we build a version of the compiler that loads [GMP] via dlopen on demand?
An explanation from well-typed: http://www.well-typed.com/blog/32
But that was ~3 years ago. Anybody still looking at possible solutions?
Maintaining the INTEGER_SIMPLE branch of GHC, minor as it is, is still
a
