Yes, and the Android NDK allows you to write arbitrary C code, it's just a slightly less than pleasant interface with the SDK :-(.
Perhaps it's easier to do this in iOS as it's all objective C rather than a vm with a runtime system. Also not sure what the status of porting the runtime system to ios would be. kris On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > ASM for iOS is possible, so GHC mobile should be possible. > > www.shervinemami.info/armAssembly.html#howto > > On Nov 10, 2012 5:59 PM, "Andrew Pennebaker" <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I've tried porting GHC to Haiku OS, a Unix-like desktop OS, but the state >> of the GHC build system is fairly confusing. The build scripts contain a >> Perl script with a bad shebang, and you can't build GHC without already >> having a working older version. >> >> If someone can point me to the most recent GHC code that doesn't need >> itself to compile, I can work on a Haiku version as practice. I really want >> GHC for every possible system. >> >> On Nov 10, 2012 5:49 PM, "Kristopher Micinski" <krismicin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Casey Basichis <caseybasic...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi Kris, >>> > >>> > No offense taken, it was an argument that works to shut down >>> > constructive >>> > discussion of how to get Haskell running on mobile, a task which has >>> > perplexed me for several long days. I agree most apps are pretty >>> > terrible, >>> > at least on iOS though, despite the percentages being wildly off there >>> > are >>> > still a few hundred apps that are very well done and thoughtful, none >>> > of >>> > them using Haskell I'm sure. >>> > >>> >>> Yup! Most of the time apps are merely "translated" versions of rails >>> frontends. (For better or for worse, I assume that if we were to port >>> haskell to work with Android really it would be mostly to appease my >>> purity.) >>> >>> > I'm looking to pass Haskell lists of musical data and return processed >>> > musical ideas from it (not audio, not realtime). I was also planning >>> > on >>> > handling a database within Haskell as the information contained would >>> > be >>> > used by the music processing and from what I have read Haskell >>> > interfaces to >>> > SQL far more readily than with a C++ orm type solution. I was planning >>> > on >>> > working with Haskells Euterpea as base to build my ideas off of, my I >>> > might >>> > end up rolling my own similar library as my aims are a bit different >>> > than >>> > theirs. >>> > >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand completely, but I agree this isn't a bad idea. >>> >>> > Everything else would be C++, including the interface, audio and dsp >>> > processing etc. I already have the C++ stuff running on my phone. I >>> > have >>> > read about the difficulty of getting Haskell working in real world >>> > scenarios, but as far as I understand my plans for it are fairly well >>> > suited >>> > to it. >>> > >>> >>> I don't disagree! >>> >>> > Since much of the documentation online about Haskell seems to be out of >>> > date, its tough to get a general feel for whats working. I see people >>> > mention that cross-compilation was finished a while back which should >>> > allow >>> > for targeting arm but nothing concrete and the website gives >>> > conflicting >>> > info. I've also considered using GHC to generate C to paste into the >>> > project but it seems there have been and may be more integrated ways to >>> > get >>> > it running. >>> >>> I am venturing into my embarrassing lack of knowledge about GHC >>> internals here, but how easily would the run time system work on >>> Android..? I had assumed a large part of the effort into getting >>> OCaml to work on iPhone went into the runtime system, no? >>> >>> If you're (Andrew or anyone) still interested in pursuing this I would >>> be interested in helping out, I have some Android internals knowledge >>> and would be glad to lend a hand. >>> >>> One major thing that seems to be necessary is congealing all the >>> (mis/outdated)information into the wiki article on haskell.org. >>> >>> kris > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
