cross-compiling with GHC

[Ian Lynagh]

Hi Mathewm,

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Mathew Mills wrote:
> 
> I want to be able to build a version of GHC that runs on x86 but
> generates binaries that will run natively on x86_64.

That isn't currently supported, I'm afraid.

I don't think there would be any major technical difficulties in adding
support, just a lot of assumptions in the compiler, libraries and build
system that we are generating code for the architecture that we are on,
so it could eat quite a bit of time.


Thanks
Ian