What is New in Cross Compiling Haskell

May Edition

After the initial Cross Compilation Survey in April, and the results, we tried to highlight some of the progress obsidian.systems and zw3rk made.

Building a Cross Compiler for Raspberry Pi

• Quick Headless Raspberry Pi Setup
• Making a Raspbian Cross Compilation SDK
• A Haskell Cross Compiler for Raspberry Pi

Cross Compiling Haskell Code

• Why use a Cross Compiler?
• GHC’s Cross Compilation Pipeline
• The Haskell Cabal and Cross Compilation

Discussing Template Haskell

• Template Haskell
• Template Haskell and Cross Compilation
• Cross Compiling Yesod to Raspberry Pi

Building a Cross Compiler for Android

• Building iconv for Android
• A Haskell Cross Compiler for Android
• Android and Template Haskell

This should give a glimpse in what is hopefully to come with GHC 8.4 and show that mobile haskell is improving! Please go ahead and try this out, report back and help us improve the status quo.

I hope you enjoyed the posts and are excited for more! As always you can follow us here on medium, on github, or on twitter.