[Haskell-cafe] Haskell compiler from a USB Stick?

[David House]

Hi all.

Does anyone know of a Haskell compiler that will run from a USB stick?
I think something like Hugs + minimal libraries + WinHugs should be
small enough to install onto the stick, but I haven't tested this.
That'd be the ideal scenario as I'm teaching Haskell (so won't need
complicated libraries) on Windows (so user-friendliness is
appreciated; terminals are something to avoid if at all possible).

Has this/could this be done?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell compiler from a USB Stick?

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,


I think something like Hugs + minimal libraries + WinHugs should be
small enough to install onto the stick, but I haven't tested this.


See MinHugs, http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/downloading.htm, it
should fit on a USB stick easily, just install it to the USB drive and
you should be good to go. Its basically exactly what you asked for
above - the desire was that students can install it on their home
drives if their uni hasn't updated Hugs since 2001.

I haven't tested this, and can't since my computer fried my USB stick,
but if you have any bug reports either email them to me to the
hugs-bugs list. Thinking of what could go wrong, the only thing I can
think of is the registry won't exist, which causes WinHugs to start up
with its defaults - and should be perfect for you. If this isn't
acceptable for some reason, let me know what you need and I am sure it
can be worked on.

Thanks

Neil


That'd be the ideal scenario as I'm teaching Haskell (so won't need
complicated libraries) on Windows (so user-friendliness is
appreciated; terminals are something to avoid if at all possible).

Has this/could this be done?

Thanks in advance.

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-David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell compiler from a USB Stick?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello David,

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 2:17:33 PM, you wrote:

 Does anyone know of a Haskell compiler that will run from a USB stick?

i'm ôäüùûå sure that both hugs and ghc will work. all that you need is
to use full pathname of executable in cmdline, it should find other
settings itself. or, you can run winhugs via an shortcut



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