[Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS

Luke Iannini lukexipd at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 01:39:15 CEST 2013


Hi Dominick,
Hm, this should have been fixed by
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7700 .

When you say you downloaded GHC, do you mean you cloned GHC HEAD (e.g. git
clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ?) — the patches have only just landed
: ).

Also can you give us an idea of what your build environment is? (OS
version, Xcode version etc)

Cheers
Luke


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I followed the instructions on the link, downloaded ghc, created build.mk,
> etc.,
> and configured for ghc-ios-sim. But the make fails with the message below.
> Tried installing terminfo (cabal install terminfo) but this didn't help...
>
> ghc $ make
> ===--- building phase 0
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
> ===--- building phase 1
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" check utils/ghc-pkg
> A 'license-file' is not specified.
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure utils/ghc-pkg dist-install ""
> --with-ghc="/Users/dsamperi/
> bin/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"
> --with-ghc-pkg="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg"
> --disable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-vanilla
> --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS="
> -U__i686 -fno-stack-protector   " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="   "
> --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
> --configure-option=--host=i386-apple-darwin11
> --with-gcc="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-gcc"
> --with-ld="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-ld"
> --configure-option=--with-cc="/Users/dsamperi/bin/ghc/ghc-ios-scripts-master/i386-apple-darwin11-gcc"
> --with-ar="/opt/local/bin/ar" --with-ranlib="ranlib"
> --with-alex="/usr/bin/alex" --with-happy="/usr/bin/happy"
> Configuring ghc-pkg-6.9...
> ghc-cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> terminfo -any
> make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com
> > wrote:
>
>>   Great.  Please thank Stephen too.. I don’t have his email.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Just go ahead and modify ****
>>
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners****
>>
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I assume iOS will become a tier-2 platform?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Simon****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* Luke Iannini [mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 30 August 2013 09:07
>> *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones
>> *Cc:* Austin Seipp
>> *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Certainly! And I'd be happy to take on maintainership of GHC iOS if
>> that's what you mean — I've committed to a very large project using it so
>> I'll be maintaining it anyway : ). I'd guess Stephen would feel the same.
>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> And thanks so much for the kind words, it means the world! Thank you
>> infinitely for Haskell : ).****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Cheers****
>>
>> Luke****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <
>> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:****
>>
>>  Should we update the “Platform maintainers” on
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC****
>>
>> or the list of supported platforms on
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms?****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> *From:* Haskell-Cafe [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Luke Iannini
>> *Sent:* 29 August 2013 21:56
>> *To:* Haskell Cafe
>> *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing GHC iOS****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Stephen provided some more credits — thanks so much to all!****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Three connected projects concerning cross-compilation:****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> *Registerised ARM support, added using David Terei's LLVM compiler back
>> end with Stephen Blackheath doing an initial ARMv5 version and LLVM patch
>> and Karel Gardas working on floating point support, ARMv7 compatibility and
>> LLVM headaches. Ben Gamari did work on the runtime linker for ARM.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> *General cross-compiling, with much work by Stephen Blackheath and Gabor
>> Greif (though many others have worked on this).****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> *A cross-compiler for Apple iOS. iOS-specific parts were mostly Stephen
>> Blackheath with Luke Iannini on the Cabal patch, testing and supporting
>> infrastructure, also with assistance and testing by Miëtek Bak and Jonathan
>> Fischoff, and thanks to many others for testing; The iOS cross compiler was
>> started back in 2009 by Stephen Blackheath with funding from Ryan Trinkle
>> of iPwn Studios.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Thanks to Ian Lynagh for making it easy for us with integration, makefile
>> refactoring and patience, and to David Terei for LLVM assistance.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ****
>>
>>  Hi all!****
>>
>> (in case you don't read /r/haskell : ))****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Stephen Blackheath and I are extremely happy to report that as of today,
>> GHC can natively build binaries for iOS devices and the iOS Simulator.***
>> *
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> You'll find everything you need here:
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> The short of it is you can use "ghc-ios myFiles.hs" to get a universal
>> ARMv7/ARMv7s/i386 static library to drop straight into an Xcode project.*
>> ***
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Stephen's already working on some wonderful FRP-powered games, I'm
>> working on a project called SpaceTime that I'll announce shortly, and you
>> may now all begin creating insanely great iOS software using the finest
>> language in the world : ).****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Stephen deserves the lion's share of the credit for this project — it's
>> been over 3 years in the making! Many thanks to Maxwell Swadling for
>> generalizing static library builds into a -staticlib flag for GHC, Carter
>> Schonwald for compilation guidance, and the venerable Austin Seipp for
>> reviewing and merging our patches.****
>>
>>   ****
>>
>>  ** **
>>
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