Termux-packages: Package request: ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)

[0Petya]

It would be very nice if we could get GHC with this.

[sleibrock]

As far as I know, GHC doesn't support Termux's LLVM.
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/commit/94fc63465bbc476ff7a2fb03fd7efe8d37e0438a

[0Petya]

Well that's really unfortunate...

[fornwall]

The next version of ghc seems to be using llvm 3.7, which seems to be planned for _Release candidate by mid-December 2015. Release in January 2016_.

[0Petya]

Oh man. I hope you can get it then. It would be amazing to have portable GHC in my pocket at all times.

[Neo-Oli]

Hi, I am reopening this issue. Package requests will now be labeled and tracked as an issue.

[flukejones]

I second this request. It would be a lovely tool to have on the go :+1:

[goodmind]

:+1:

[kozross]

Consider me a third for this request. Really wanna have an on-the-go GHCi especially.

[5hubh4m]

I would love to have ghc on my phone and tablet. Please consider doing this.

[robertkluin]

I am attempting to build 7.10.3 using the Docker build method. Has anyone made it past the iconv portion of the build?

[fornwall]

I've updated the disabled ghc package at

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/disabled-packages/ghc

That is probably the best starting point. Start by building the dependencies:

for p in libandroid-support libgnustl ncurses clang; do ./build-package.sh $p; done

Then try to build the ghc package with

./build-package.sh disabled-packages/ghc

Modify the build.sh file in disabled-packages/ghc and patch files as needed. I have left a note with the current status where the build fails at the top of disabled-packages/ghc/build.sh.

[dasie]

I'm very interested as well !!
I want to change my android device in quantum simulator !! http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/

[linuxcaffe]

I would very much like to have hledger (http://hledger.org) running in termux. Would it be possible to run a compiled binary in termux, even without ghc? Currently, the "easy way" to install hledger (and hledger-ui, and hledger-web) is using stack.. does this make it any more feasible?

[ghost]

I'd like to mention that debian repositories contain ghc precompiled for arm64 which can be ran using application called 'GNURoot'

[wende]

Love the idea. What's the current status on this?

[kozross]

There are now binary cross-compiler distributions for GHC, which might be a thing that we could use.

[vatsman]

any updates on this?
right now i'm using android-termux-hugs to use Haskell but its missing quite a lot of functionality that GHC/GHCi provides.

[viking66]

Thanks to @t184256 and his script for running nix in termux, I was able to get GHC running. Once you have nix available, you can run nix run nixpkgs.haskellPackages.ghc to get shell with GHC/GHCi.

[pianycist]

Has there been any progress on the possibility of fontforge in termux? It can be compiled without X, and many of its dependencies are flexible, according to the documentation.

edit: sorry, I posted this comment in the wrong thread.

[k1m190r]

Used Debian installed with a command from: "AndroNix - Linux on Android without root". Once installed ./start-ubuntu.sh then apt-get install ghc and voila gchi available.

[xeffyr]

Package is now available in unstable-packages repository.

pkg install unstable-repo
pkg install ghc

Available only for AArch64 and x86_64 currently.

Thanks to @qwerty12.