Isn't gcc just used for its assembler and object file creation, these days, now that via-C is deprecated? Or are there other parts of it that are needed?
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:49, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: > > > I would be fantastic if XCode wasn't a dependency. ... > > > > Not to detract at all from the work of the wonderful GHC and Haskell > > Platform contributors in any way. For me it would just make it that > > much easier to convince mac-using friends to give Haskell a try. > > The ghc team already bundle a copy of gcc in their Windows distribution, > precisely because it can be fiddly to get a working copy of gcc for that > platform otherwise. I wonder if they would consider the possibility of > shipping gcc on Mac too? (There may be good reasons not to do that, but > let's have the discussion.) > > Regards, > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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