Building the Glasgow Functional Programming Tools Suite

The GHC Team

November 2001


Table of Contents
1. Getting the sources
2. Using the CVS repository
3. What projects are there?
4. Things to check before you start
5. What machines the Glasgow tools run on
6. Installing pre-supposed utilities
7. Building from source
8. The Makefile architecture
9. Building the documentation
10. Porting GHC
11. Known pitfalls in building Glasgow Haskell
12. Notes for building under Windows

1. Getting the sources

You can get your hands on the fptools in two ways:

If you are going to do any building from sources (either from a source distribution or the CVS repository) then you need to read all of this manual in detail.