GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-02 Thread Luite Stegeman
hi all, I've added some code [1] [2] to GHCJS to make it run Template Haskell code on node.js, rather than using the GHC linker. GHCJS has supported TH for a long time now, but so far always relied on native (host) code for it. This is the main reason that GHCJS always builds native and JavaScript

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
wow, this is great work! If theres a clear path to getting the generic tooling into 7.10, i'm all for it :) (and willing to help on concrete mechanical subtasks) On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Luite Stegeman wrote: > hi all, > > I've added some code [1] [2] to GHCJS to make it run Template H

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
This would probably be a great boon for those trying to use haskell for Android and IOS right? how might the emulation setup work for those? On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > wow, this is great work! > > If theres a clear path to getting the generic tooling into 7.10,

Fwd: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-02 Thread member MP2E
I signed up for the mailing list to express my high level of interest in this project, I have been working with GHC 7.8 built as a cross compiler for Android and currently the only way to use libraries like lens, singletons, and anything else that uses Template Haskell is to add a patch to enable i

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread CJ van den Berg
Yes! This would definitely be of great interest to users of the Android cross compilers. It should be quite feasible to drive a TH runner process on a development device or emulator. Having genuine TH support would be a huge improvement to the usefulness of GHC in a cross compiling scenario. I wou

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread Luite Stegeman
I think GHC could use more or less the same communication method as GHCJS now does: Start some user-specifiied process and send messages through pipes (GHCJS uses stdin/stderr of the node process), with the difference that it would get dynamic libraries for the target rather than blobs of JS code.

RE: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
seem to have said “oh yes, that’d be interesting”. Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Luite Stegeman Sent: 02 July 2014 17:14 To: ghc-devs; glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org Subject: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread John Meacham
In case anyone wanted to start writing haskell android code now, jhc fully supports android as a target. here is an app made with it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.metasepi.ajhc.android.cube this was made with Kiwamu's ajhc branch but code has been merged back into the main tre

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread Dominick Samperi
Hello John, I tried to install the Haskell demo Cube on my Nexus 7 and got: Error: package file was not signed correctly. D On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:47 PM, John Meacham wrote: > In case anyone wanted to start writing haskell android code now, jhc > fully supports android as a target. here is an a

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-04 Thread Luite Stegeman
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > Luite > > > > I lack the bandwidth to respond at any technical depth, but I’d like to > make encouraging noises. If you can figure out a way to make GHC do these > things without making the compiler terribly complicated and making > ma

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-04 Thread John Meacham
Hmm.. It works on my nexus 4. Kiwamu of the metasepi http://ajhc.metasepi.org/ is the one that uploaded the demo. Perhaps he needs to update the key or something. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > Hello John, > I tried to install the Haskell demo Cube on my Nexus 7 > and g

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-05 Thread Luite Stegeman
How would you do reification with that approach? On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:59 PM, John Meacham wrote: > Actually, I was looking into it a little, and template haskell could > effectively be implemented by a pre-processor and a portable library > that is compiler independent. If one could get ghc

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-05 Thread John Meacham
The target compiler would have the TH libraries, which could be made to be portable. The external program would just extract the TH bits and turn them into a program that spits the TH expanded output to a new file to compile, and repeat the process til no TH expansions exist and finally that is the

Re: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-05 Thread Luite Stegeman
I'm not sure I correctly understand your approach, but to have the template haskell reification work without any runtime communication with the compiler you'd have to include the entire typechecker state, at least for all names reachable from the splice (see http://hackage.haskell.org/package/templ

Re: Fwd: GHCJS now runs Template Haskell on node.js - Any interest in out of process TH for general cross compilation?

2014-07-03 Thread CJ van den Berg
That is great! Please send your patches to me. I would love to update ghc-android to support 7.8. A pull request on github would be ideal, but plain patches are ok too. On 2014-07-03 05:18, member MP2E wrote: > 1. Cross GHC 7.8 using the Stage1 TH patch and a few other patches > available from Neu