1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
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4 This is the source tree for GHC, a compiler and interactive
5 environment for the Haskell functional programming language.
7 For more information, visit GHC's web site:
9 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
11 Information for developers of GHC can be found here:
13 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
19 NB. you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler
20 is itself written in Haskell. It is possible to build GHC using just
21 a C compiler, but we don't recommend this as the normal route. If you
22 *really* want to do it this way, then see the Building Guide (link
25 You also need a few other tools installed: Happy [4], Alex [5], and
26 Haddock [6] (for building library documentation), and a good DocBook
27 XML toolchain if you want to build the compiler documentation.
29 Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
36 The autoreconf step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
37 from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
38 this step has already been performed.
40 These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
41 optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
42 It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file
45 For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3],
46 which is also available in source form (DocBook XML) in docs/building.
52 [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC Home Page
53 [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc GHC Developer's Wiki
54 [3] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/index.html
57 [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/ Happy
58 [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/ Alex
59 [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/ Haddock
67 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html