Readme for ajhc-0.8.0.9
Ajhc - arafura-jhc
A fork of jhc. And also a Haskell compiler.
This project is founded by Metasepi Project.
Build Status
How to install
$ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform libncurses5-dev gcc m4
$ cabal install ajhc
How to build latest version
$ sudo apt-get install make locales autoconf haskell-derive-utils \
libconfig-yaml-perl graphviz haskell-platform cpphs pandoc hscolour po4a \
libghc-temporary-dev libghc-haskeline-dev libghc-utf8-string-dev libghc-hssyck-dev \
libghc-test-framework-th-dev libghc-test-framework-hunit-dev \
libghc-test-framework-quickcheck2-dev libghc-uniplate-dev libgc-dev gcc valgrind
$ git clone git://github.com/ajhc/ajhc.git
$ cd ajhc
$ git checkout arafura
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
For developing
First, you should use the arafura branch, rather than master branch.
- master branch: Do not touch me, mirror of jhc's darcs repository.
- arafura branch: For developing Ajhc.
You should send patch to jhc, if testing on Ajhc is good.
$ darcs get http://repetae.net/repos/jhc
$ cd jhc/
$ patch -p1 < ~/yourfile.patch
$ darcs record -a
$ darcs send
The command darcs send sends email the patch to jhc author (= John Meacham).
Perhaps you can get internal overview with following compile flow image:
Needing to install/build on Windows (experimental)
Install msys
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/
Install below.
- C Compiler
- MSYS Basic System
- MinGW Developer ToolKit
You should run cabal install on msys console.
Install Git for Windows
It's good choosing the below option.
- "Checkout as-is, commit as-is"
- "Run Git and included Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt"
Install Haskell Platform
http://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html
Future plan
- No more depend on Perl (LWP and YAML).
- Port Haskell libraries on haskell-platform to Ajhc.
- Understand jhc's region inference.
- Play with Google Native Client. https://developers.google.com/native-client/
- Write Linux kernel driver with Haskell.
- Get smaller RTS. Benchmark the RTS for running on custom FPGA CPU.
- Start rewritng NetBSD kernel with Ajhc.