Wow, this is great news. (still compiling, so didn't even try it out yet) Will it be possible to interface (from/to) with native javascript functions in this release? And are there any packages that provide the objects/functions provided by the DOM?
Thanks for continuing ghcjs. I was beginning to fear people didn't mind to code JS by hand :P On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Hamish Mackenzie <hamish.k.macken...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Blackh and I have been trying out some ideas on how to make it easier use > GHCJS in your Cabal projects. We took Victor's GHCJS code and added it back > into GHC (we could not easily accomplish what we wanted using the current GHC > API). We set it up so that GHC outputs a .js file whenever it outputs an > object file. We added code to Cabal to install the .js files (in the same > place as the .hi files). At link time GHC copies all the .js files from the > packages used into a .jsexe directory (with the same name and in the same > location as the executable). Finally when the executable is installed we > copy the .jsexe directory along with it. Only files with differing modified > dates are copied to avoid slowing things down too much. > > I have updated my yesod-slides example to show how all this can be used. > > https://github.com/hamishmack/yesod-slides > > The README.mardown there has instructions for building GHC and Cabal with the > GHCJS stuff in it. It is a bit painful to build, but the changes to > yesod-slides were quite minor... > * Added ghcjs-rts to the build depends > * Published the yesod-slides.jsexe folder (using Yesod's staticFiles) > * Added <script> tags to <head> for rts-common.js and rts-plain.js > * Added Julius script to init the rts > > Currently GHC is hard coded to use the GHCJS Trampoline calling convention > (in GHC's HscMain.hs). > > Hamish > _______________________________________________ > 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
