| | 1 | There are several people now interested in working on turning GHC into a Real Cross Compiler (something akin to the design laid out [wiki:CrossCompilation here].) This page covers that WIP, as well as architectural/design notes. |
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| | 3 | = Current work = |
| | 4 | * Brian Bloniarz implemented a cross compilation mode for hsc2hs. You can find the patches [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2010-December/058508.html here]. These have yet to be merged by GHC HQ, but we would like them to be! |
| | 5 | * Dan Knapp is working on the native code generators - removing everything that uses the pre-processor and instead threading an `Architecture` type through the compiler, containing ABI information so we can generate the correct code at runtime. You can check out his work by doing |
| | 6 | {{{ |
| | 7 | darcs get http://dankna.com/software/darcs/ghc-darcs-dnk-cross-compilation/ |
| | 8 | }}} |
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| | 10 | = Other things worth considering/need doing/questions = |
| | 11 | * The build system. This is the Big Mother - the design is laid out [wiki:Building/Architecture here]. There are various things worth considering, like the fact that GHC builds programs as part of the build routine which it then uses, etc. |
| | 12 | * Will the RTS need modifications? We must build it multiple times with both the host and target toolchain C compilers, so it should mostly be OK, but we may need to do more |
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| | 14 | = Design notes = |
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| | 16 | TODO FIXME |
