Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of UsingGhcAsLibrary

Timestamp:

12/08/05 12:36:02 (7 years ago)

Author:

simonmar

Comment:

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UsingGhcAsLibrary

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-In GHC 6.4 and subsequently you can import GHC as a Haskell library, which lets you write a Haskell program that has access to all of GHC. 
+In GHC 6.5 and subsequently you can import GHC as a Haskell library, which lets you write a Haskell program that has access to all of GHC. 
 
 This page is a place for everyone to add
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 = Getting started =
-To do this you say simply 
+You'll need to get a version of GHC that supports the GHC API.  Either download ghc from [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/sec-cvs.html CVS] or use darcs: {{{darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc}}}.  There are also [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist nightly snapshot distributions] available.
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+To use the GHC API you say simply 
 {{{
   import GHC
 }}}
-Doing this imports the module `GHC` from the package `ghc`, which comes with GHC 6.4 and subsequent.  The module GHC exports the "GHC API", which is still in a state of flux.  Currently it's not even Haddock-documented.  You can see the source code (which is somewhat documented) here 
+Doing this imports the module `GHC` from the package `ghc`, which comes with GHC 6.5 and subsequent.  The module GHC exports the "GHC API", which is still in a state of flux.  Currently it's not even Haddock-documented.  You can see the source code (which is somewhat documented) here 
 http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/main/GHC.hs