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I know there was some work to do a musl and or alpine Linux build. Or both, probably easy to google. Also I'm moderately certain that ghc on FreeBSD and Mac d

• cm3 10y ago
  Targeting musl works out of the box with the musl toolchain and once you have a musl build you can build another ghc with that one with musl as the host. I haven't tried building a statically linked musl ghc, and I honestly don't know how, but it'd be great to figure out. Any pointers? Speaking of static musl builds, that can be a good choice to create a single bindist of GHC that works on CentOS, Debian, Alpine, and any other Linux distro. Seeing how Docker defaults to Alpine images, it could be beneficial in that regard as well.
• mitchty 10y ago
  Already built for alpine linux, and I have it setup to use a stage 2 bootstrap. So you build off debian, then build locally to build an alpine apk. https://github.com/mitchty/alpine-linux-ghc-bootstrap https://github.com/mitchty/alpine-linux-ghc-bootstrap Recently updated last week to 8.0.1, and its submitted upstream but not yet accepted because alpine linux 3.4 is about to come out. If you want to try it now you can docker pull mitchty/alpine-ghc:8.0