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GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98 (http://www.haskell.org). GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a comprehensive set of libraries. This package provides the 8.4.x release series, which is the last version that can bootstrap with 8.0.2. It will probably be removed once we make a separate package for GHC 8.8.x and get enough bootstrap kits for it.
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GHC requires itself to build, and unfortunately the only way to get a
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working GHC for a foreign target is to do a cross-compilation.
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In order to build a bootkit for a new platform, you need to manually
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set up a cross-building C compiler and binutils, libc, libterminfo,
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and libiconv for the target. Then you can follow instructions in
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https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/building/cross-compiling
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Once you get a working GHC for the target platform, install it
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somewhere in your PATH, run "cd lang/ghc84; make clean; make bootstrap"
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on the target platform and you'll have a bootkit for the target.
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GHC in fact has never supported bootstrapping only with a C compiler.
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Prior to GHC 7, it had a thing called "HC source", which was a set of
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C source files compiled from Haskell source, but it wasn't actually
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cross-platform. It was because HC files were generated with many
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assumptions about the platform, such as the layout of libc structs,
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the size of off_t and time_t, byte-order, word size, etc.
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