Re: How accessible is a dynamically-linked ghc?

2013-07-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:42:27PM -0500, Nicolas Frisby wrote: 1) How much effort does it take for a user to install a dynamically-linked ghc executable on Tier 1 platforms? Just download the source and set DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS=YES? From 7.8, the plan is for this to be the default on

Re: How accessible is a dynamically-linked ghc?

2013-07-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 10.07.2013, 14:42 -0500 schrieb Nicolas Frisby: 2) Are the major GHC distributors planning on distributing dynamically-linked ghc by default? GHC HQ, Haskell Platform, http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages? You are talking about the GHC binary itself, not

Re: How accessible is a dynamically-linked ghc?

2013-07-11 Thread Austin Seipp
Theoretically, ARM supports stage2 with the home-grown linker and a statically linked GHC, but last I understood, it can't build dynamically. That's because building the compiler with LLVM dynamically is unsupported, and ARM can only use the LLVM backend. There may be hope though; in commit