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From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <ram@rkrishnan.org>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting Idris to 9front
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:25:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484286924.1672885.846353336.21E2AFA2@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170113032910.GA13350@master>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017, at 08:59 AM, Joe M wrote:
>
> I am looking to build a native (not using ape/posix) port of Idris on
> 9front.
>
> This is the repo that I plan on using for the relevant
> code. https://github.com/joe9/idris-9front-backend
>
> #cat-v mentioned that Skip ported Idris to atari st.
>
> Just want to check if there are any experiences or advice or code that
> I can reuse.

Don't you need GHC to compile Idris?

Afaik, there is no Plan 9 port of GHC. And GHC is self hosted. Perhaps
one should approach it by creating a plan 9 binary from another OS and
use that to compile GHC?

--
  Ramakrishnan



  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-13  3:29 Joe M
2017-01-13  5:55 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan [this message]
2017-01-13 14:05   ` Joe M
2017-01-13 14:56     ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-01-13 16:54       ` Joe M
2017-01-14 19:32     ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2017-01-14 20:18       ` Ori Bernstein
2017-01-15  2:12         ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2017-01-13  6:19 ` Sean Callanan
2017-01-13  8:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2017-01-13 13:47   ` Joe M

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