[Yhc] Compiling Prelude.hs

[Krasimir Angelov]

Ok. I tried to replace the bytecode generator in YHC with my own which
is generating .NET code instead of the usual bytecode. I managed to
run my first application for .NET but with some hand written code that
replaces a small part of the base package. What I want is to generate
the right code for base with the compiler. Any advice about how to do
that?

Cheers,
  Krasimir

2006/1/16, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com>:
> > I wonder how this bootstrapping version of base was built. When I
> > tried to do this manually the compiler died with stack overflow.  Is
> > it because the compiler is tring to import Prelude while compiling
> > Prelude?
>
> Yes, its something like that. There are also problems with recursive
> dependancies I believe - things like IO require the Prelude, and the
> Prelude requires IO. If you look at the Unix makefile, that really
> does try and build them - it also requires the special flag
> --unifyhack or something. I believe it also requires modifying the .hi
> file by hand as well.
>
> The hope is in future that compiling the Prelude will be as simple as
> "yhc Prelude.hs" - but this requires quite a few changes before thats
> ready.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>