GHC Hackathon

[Jeremy Gibbons]

Thanks for your help, guys.

Just checking that I got you right - I've not (afaik) used the Apple  
developer tools before. How do I find out which version of Xcode I  
have currently? Apple's website suggests that 2.0 comes free with  
Tiger. Did I need to do anything special to install it? The latest  
seems to be 2.4, but it is a 900M download! Too big for my home  
connection, I fear. Also, I need to join ADC to get it - free, right?

Malcolm Wallace suggests getting the latest from darcs instead. If I  
do this, I need to install all the ancillary tools first, right? That  
sounded a bit painful.

Jeremy

On 8 Sep 2006, at 16:16, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> thanks.  remember to cc Jeremy (I'm doing that now)
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Mathew Mills [mailto:mathewm at amazon.com]
> | Sent: 08 September 2006 16:01
> | To: Simon Peyton-Jones
> | Cc: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: GHC Hackathon
> |
> | While I have not seen that specific error, I did have many problems
> | building GHC on my PPC Mac OS X 10.4 machine.  They were all  
> fixed by
> | upgrading to a more recent version of the XCode and developer tools
> | ( I am currently on 2.3, I have not tried the more recent 2.4 ).
> |
> | Hope that helps.  If not, e-mail me directly and we can might be  
> able
> | to work through the issues.
> |
> | Now, if someone has some hints about how to compile GHC on a
> | PowerBook G4 in less than 36 hours, I am all ears :)
> |
> | On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> |
> | > can anyone help with MacOSX?
> | >
> | > S
> | >
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: Jeremy Gibbons [mailto:Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk]
> | > Sent: 08 September 2006 14:00
> | > To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Simon Marlow
> | > Cc: Jeremy Gibbons
> | > Subject: GHC Hackathon
> | >
> | > Hi, guys. I'm looking forward to the GHC Hackathon next week. In
> | > preparation, I was hoping to make sure that I can build GHC (on my
> | > Mac,
> | > OS
> | > X 10.4). I've got part-way through the build (of GHC 6.4.2),  
> but it
> | > stops
> | > with apparently syntax errors. I'm guessing that this is enough  
> for
> | > the
> | > Hackathon, and I'll be able to get expert help there; but if you
> think
> | > there's something else I need to do to prepare, do say.
> | >
> | > Jeremy
> | >
> | > PS In case you're interested now: while calling ghc-inplace on
> | > ghc/rts/Apply.cmm, I get errors
> | >
> | >   Apply.cmm:28: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after
> | > `section'
> | >   Apply.cmm:52: syntax error, found `1'
> | >   Apply.cmm:52: illegal method selector, found `*'
> | >
> | > and then many more, perhaps consequential.
> | >
> | >
> | > Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk
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