Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Building/AIX

Timestamp:

Dec 5, 2015 9:32:23 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

hvr

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Building/AIX

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 This page documents which hoops to jump through to make this happen and what the current limitations are.
 
-TODO: write me
+== Prerequisites
+
+ - GNU Make
+ - GCC (known to work: GCC 4.8.3, other versions may work as well though)
+ - GMP (unless `integer-simple` is used)
+ - libiconv-1.14 (compiled with `-D_THREAD_SAFE`)
+ - binutils (for `objdump` and `gas`)
+ - ...TODO...
+
+The [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ AIX Open Source Packages] repository is a convenient source to get the prerequisites.
+
+{{{#!rbox note
+A consequence of this is that building a GHC crosscompiler targetting AIX is quite difficult.
+}}}
+Sadly (at the time of writing), `binutils`'s `ld` has only partial support for AIX. IBM's `ld` must be used. Also, IBM's `ar` is recommended over `binutils`'s. 
+
+Having said that, IBM's `as` has deficiencies which cause problems when compiling GHC. So `gas` from `binutils` is recommended for building GHC.
+
+== Building
+
+
+TODO: