Re: [Haskell-iPhone] GHC as a cross-compiler

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:44:03AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I just wanted to mention that there's cross-compilation work going
> on in parallel on the GHC repo: Gabor Greif has been working on
> cross-compilation and Ian is currently working on integrating it.
>
> On 18/11/2012 21:29, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone] wrote:
> >You will also need to provide an alien script. What 'alien' does is to
> >compile something for the target in such a way that we can run it
> >locally.

In HEAD, we're working towards alien-less bootstrapping, as that makes
life easier for the cross-compiler.

As Simon said, I'm currently working on integrating the work that Gabor
has done towards this goal.


Thanks
Ian