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Building and Installing the Glasgow Functional Programming Tools Suite

Version 3.01

The GHC Team, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QQ. Email: glasgow-haskell-{users,bugs}@dcs.gla.ac.uk

November 1997


This guide is intended for people who want to install or modify programs from the Glasgow fptools suite (as distinct from those who merely want to run them). The whole install-and-make system was completely re-done between GHC 2.01 and 2.02, so it will be worth your while to re-read this guide even if you have read earlier versions.

1. Getting the Glasgow fptools suite

2. Things to check before you start typing

3. What machines the Glasgow tools run on

4. Installing from binary distributions

5. Installing pre-supposed utilities

6. Building from source

7. The Makefile architecture

8. Booting/porting from C (.hc) files

9. Known pitfalls in building Glasgow Haskell


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