1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.00
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 3.00. Source and Binary distribution is freely
6 available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
22 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
23 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
25 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
27 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
28 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
31 + On-line GHC-related resources
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34 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
36 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
37 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
38 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
39 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
45 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
48 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
50 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
51 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
52 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
57 ======================
59 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
60 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
61 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
64 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
65 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
67 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
68 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
70 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
71 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
72 an on-line version can be found at
74 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.00/installation_guide/installing_toc.html