ghc-<version>-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
You only need the first one, which contains GHC itself and
- the "core" libraries.
+ the "boot" libraries.
The extralibs package contains a bunch of optional libraries. If
you want, you can unpack this over the top of your source tree, and
$ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
- Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository
+ Then run the darcs-all script in that repository
to get the other repositories:
$ cd ghc
- $ sh darcs-all get
+ $ chmod +x darcs-all
+ $ ./darcs-all get
- This grabs the "core" packages by default. To get the full set of
+ This grabs the "boot" packages by default. To get the full set of
packages, instead say
- $ sh darcs-all --extra get
+ $ ./darcs-all --extra get
This also downloads the libraries that are normally bundled in the
"extralibs" package (see above).
Building & Installing
=====================
+For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3].
+Here follows a summary - if you get into trouble, the Building Guide
+has all the answers.
+
NB. you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler
is itself written in Haskell. It is possible to build GHC using just
a C compiler, but we don't recommend this as the normal route. If you
-*really* want to do it this way, then see the Building Guide (link
-below).
+*really* want to do it this way, then see the Building Guide.
+
+If you're building from darcs sources (as opposed to a source
+distribution) then you also need to install Happy [4] and Alex [5].
-You also need a few other tools installed: Happy [4], Alex [5], and
-Haddock [6] (for building library documentation), and a good DocBook
-XML toolchain if you want to build the compiler documentation.
+For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [6]. To build
+the compiler documentation, you need a good DocBook XML toolchain.
Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
- $ autoreconf
- $ ./configure
- $ make
- $ make install
+ $ sh boot
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make install
-The autoreconf step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+The "sh boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
this step has already been performed.
+If you want the documentation too then use these commands instead:
+
+ $ echo "XMLDocWays = html" > mk/build.mk
+ $ echo "HADDOCK_DOCS = YES" >> mk/build.mk
+ $ sh boot
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make install
+ $ make install-docs
+
These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file
HACKING.
-For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3],
-which is also available in source form (DocBook XML) in docs/building.
References
==========
- [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC Home Page
- [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc GHC Developer's Wiki
- [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
- Building Guide
-
- [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/ Happy
- [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/ Alex
- [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/ Haddock
+ [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC Home Page
+ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc GHC Developer's Wiki
+ [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Building Guide
+ [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/ Happy
+ [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/ Alex
+ [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/ Haddock
Contributors
============
Please see
-
+
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html