The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.02.2
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We are pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of the Glasgow
Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 5.02.2. The source distribution is
freely available via the World-Wide Web, under a BSD-style license.
See below for download details. Pre-built packages for Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, Alpha(OSF) and Win32 are also available, or will
appear shortly.
Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
language interfaces (C, C++, whatever).
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
Haskell home page at
http://www.haskell.org/
GHC's Web page lives at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
What's new in 5.02.2
======================
Some important bugfixes:
- fix for the long-standing "oversize heap-check" bug
- networking library fixes: now works on Windows again
- GHC's memory requirements should be improved over 5.02.1,
especially when using --make.
and many other minor fixes.
How to get it
===============
The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
flavours of Linux and BSD, and in InstallShield form for Windows
folks. Everybody else gets a .tar.gz which can be installed where you
want.
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release.
On-line GHC-related resources
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Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
System requirements
=====================
To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GNU
C
and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
* i386-unknown-{linux,freebsd,mingw32}
* sparc-sun-solaris2
* alpha-dec-osf3
Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
* hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
* i386-unknown-solaris2
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
The builder's guide included in distribution gives a complete
run-down of what ports work; an on-line version can be found at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/building/building-guide.html
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