Cross-compilation with GHC

Question

Is it possible to do cross-compilation with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler for common architectures?

If not, is this feature planned to be developed in the near future?

Answer 1

As of this moment (GHC 7.0) GHC does not support cross-compilation.

As of 2013, "support for cross-compilation works reasonably well in GHC 7.8.1".

See the status on the CrossCompilation wiki page.

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Discussion

GHC has always supported self-cross-compilation (i.e. you can port GHC to a new architecture). However, GHC as a cross-compiler, that runs on a host, but produces binaries that target another, has not been supported.

As of GHC 7 though, with the new LLVM backend, work is being undertaken to add cross-compilation support. Status appears to be, from Mark Lentczner, "At this point I can build and link and run a stage1 cross-compiler." So stay tuned for GHC 7.2