RISC-V/GHC: Difference between revisions
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== Booting GHC via cross-compilation == | == Booting GHC via cross-compilation == | ||
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For newer GHCs, refer to the GHC documentation or the Nixpkgs source to find which version of GHC and LLVM is needed for compilation. | For newer GHCs, refer to the GHC documentation or the Nixpkgs source to find which version of GHC and LLVM is needed for compilation. | ||
GHC >=9.2 is unable to boot | GHC >=9.2 is unable to boot 9.2 and 9.4. GHC >=9.6 cannot be cross-compiled at all due to issues with Hadrian. Newer GHCs can be booted using natively compiled versions of GHC instead. | ||
See https://github.com/AlexandreTunstall/nixos-riscv for an example of a pure flake that uses this trick to compile Haskell programs for RISC-V. | See https://github.com/AlexandreTunstall/nixos-riscv for an example of a pure flake that uses this trick to compile Haskell programs for RISC-V. | ||