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3 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4
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6 The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. It
7 has been a long time since the last major release (Dec 2003!), and a
10 - GADTs (Generalised Abstract Datatypes) are supported
12 - STM (Software Transactional Memory) is implemented
14 - Full support for Cabal and a much improved package framework
16 - Better support for mutually-recursive modules
18 - A complete rewrite of the back end
20 - Accurate source locations in error messages
22 - Lots of new libraries
24 The full release notes are here:
26 http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4/html/users_guide/release-6-4.html
30 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
32 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
34 We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
35 flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form
36 for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available
37 as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source
38 distribution is also available from the same place.
40 Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
41 system isn't available yet, please try again later.
47 Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
48 current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
49 revised December 2002.
51 GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
52 an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
53 platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
54 development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
55 facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
56 language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
57 language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
58 BSD-style open source license.
60 A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
61 specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
62 contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
63 Haskell home page (see below).
66 On-line GHC-related resources
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69 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
71 GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
72 Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
73 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
79 To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC
80 and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
82 * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
84 * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
87 Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
88 difficulty. The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete
89 run-down of what ports work and how to go about porting to a new
90 platform; it can be found at
92 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/
97 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
100 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
101 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
103 There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
104 www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
106 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
108 Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at
110 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
112 or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
114 GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding
115 edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.