Getting the Source
==================
-First get the GHC darcs repository:
+There are two ways to get a source tree:
- $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
+ 1. Download source tarballs
+ ---------------------------
-Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository
-to get the other repositories:
+ Download the GHC source distribution:
- $ cd ghc
- $ sh darcs-all
+ ghc-<version>-src.tar.bz2
+
+ which contains GHC itself and the "boot" libraries.
+
+ 2. Check out the source code from git
+ -------------------------------------
+
+ First get the GHC git repository:
+
+ $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/
+
+ Then run the sync-all script in that repository
+ to get the other repositories:
+
+ $ cd ghc
+ $ ./sync-all get
+
+ This checks out the "boot" packages.
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).
+is itself written in Haskell. For instructions on how to port GHC to a
+new platform, see the Building Guide.
+
+If you're building from git 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 and
+dblatex.
Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
- $ autoreconf
- $ ./configure
- $ make
- $ make install
+ $ perl boot
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make install
-The autoreconf step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
-from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
+The "perl boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+from git. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
this step has already been performed.
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.
+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://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/index.html
- 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
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