topic Re: DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0?? in Operating System - Linux

DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0??

Michel Polotto — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:38:16 GMT

Hi All,

I'd like to experiment with Darcs on HP-UX 11.0, and instead of going to build it first, I was looking around for binaries. However, I see on darcs.net that there's Darcs for Solaris, AIX, BSD and Linux, but not HP-UX.

So I might have to build it! However (again) it's build in Haskell ...

So here I go looking for a Haskell compiler on HP-UX, and I can't seem to find one. Note, however (3rd time!) that Haskell is written, in ... Haskell!!! I like this ...

So shall I have to build the compiler myself?
Well ... darcs.net (again) says don't try building the Haskell compiler yourself if you're no Haskell guru (I ain't, yet ...), because, well it's written in Haskell remember?

So, here's the question: does anyone know where I could find either a Darcs, or a Haskell binary for HP-UX 11.0? NB: preferably from a reputable source, since I'd like to concentrate on Darcs 1st, not Haskell (yet)!

Makes sense?

Thanks to all for suggestions ...

Michel Polotto

Re: DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0??

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:30:29 GMT

Shalom Michel,

Sounds like a chicken or the egg, which came first type thing.

If Haskell is built in Haskell, how did it ever get off the original development platform. The answer is probably the developers developed binaries for the compiler the hard way, and then moved and recompiled the source as they went forward.

You are sure there is no base in assembler or C?

Sounds like the problem may not be solved until the developers decide to relase for HP-UX

Can you post a few docs on this item, I'd like to read a bit.

SEP

Re: DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0??

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:32:02 GMT

This seems to be a Haskell interpreter:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/gofer-2.30a/

Does that help?

Duncan

Re: DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0??

Michel Polotto — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:40:11 GMT

Hi,

Thanks Duncan, I'll see if I can use it. It does seem a bit dated (June 2000!) and it's only PA-RISC 1.1, we use PA-RISC 2 here I believe ... But I'll definitely give it a try if nothing else shows up.

Thanks Steven, too. I know they must have started with a minimal compiler, written in C to bootstrap the process, however I have not found any relevant info so far about how and what or what minimal features it needs to support to get up and working.

There's info about Darcs at http://abridgegame.org/darcs/

info about Haskell can be found at
http://www.haskell.org/

If I cannot find a HP-UX GHC compiler (Glasgow Haskell compiler) I may also try using Hugs, a C implementation of the Haskell compiler. I hope one or the other will be OK for Darcs.

Greetings

Michel

Re: DARCS or HASKELL binary for HPUX 11.0??

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:07:24 GMT

Doesn't matteer about the PA-Risc 1.1

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/gofer-2.30a/

Has source code for the interpreter.

Therefore you can compile it to work on PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 or even IA64 if you want to work hard enough.

Pay close attention to the build requirements and the run time requirements. Miss one of them and it won't work.

SEP