Create a binary distribution

[neurocyte]

Building the full cross compiler with template-haskell support takes quite a while because it is in effect a stage 3 compiler. I think a binary distribution would really help lower the barrier to entry for Haskell based Android development.

Would anyone else use a binary distribution?

[aXe1]

I would like to have precompiled binary as well. P.s. Thanks for a big work!

[anthony-coble]

After a couple of days spending my free time trying to get this to build, I have to say a precompiled binary would be much appreciated.

[neurocyte]

Which distros would be most useful?

[aXe1]

AFAIK most popular distros are based on Ubuntu/Debian and CentOS/RedHat. I'm using Debian currently and Windows 7. How easy is it to compile under not *nix platform? Is it even possible to compile under Windows?

[anthony-coble]

I tend to use use ubuntu, as do most people I know.

[atondwal]

I use arch, I think neurocyte uses arch, writing a PKGBUILD is straightforward, and the package started as scripts for arch, so let's start with arch.

[neurocyte]

Yes, I use Arch, but I also have Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE chroots. I will probably start with an Arch package and then look at Ubuntu and Debian.

The tricky question though is how to integrate with the NDK. I don’t think I can redistribute the NDK’s compiler in a bindary package. So it will have to have some sort if install process. I’ll have to think about it some more.

[aXe1]

IMHO it will be ok to warn user that he needs to install NDK manually, because it isn't available as a package. AFAIK Debian packages have a special list for that - mandatory steps, that package system couldn't make itself. Maybe Arch has something similar.

[atondwal]

The NDK binaries are all covered by [L]GPL, so we should be fine...

[aXe1]

Then it's strange that repacked NDK/SDK is not popular at all, even for major distros..

[atondwal]

Strange indeed.

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build/tools/download-toolchain-sources.sh to download it automatically).

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or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For details, see the files
COPYING and COPYING.LIB under 'build/prebuilt/<system>/<toolchain>'
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[nerdRenegade]

Any progress on this? Im trying to buld under gnuroot on android... Eventually we should see the Haskell platform targeting android, but maybe we will have to write it...