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The latest stable release is 1.12, available in various distribution formats (listed below). Important patches for the stable version are also provided. The development tree is at version 1.13, and is only available by CVS. Bugfixes and important changes to the system are described in the release notes for each version.

Don't forget to read the installation instructions.


Distribution packages

package machine version date size
Sources (.tar.gz) any 1.12 2002-03-15 7.9Mb
Executable (.tar.gz) ix86-Linux 1.12 2002-03-18 9.4Mb
Sources (.tar.gz) any 1.10 2001-10-19 7.1Mb
Executable (.tar.gz) ix86-Linux 1.10 2001-10-19 5.9Mb
Sources+Executable ix86-FreeBSD-4.4 1.10 2002-01-03
Sources (.rpm) any 1.10 2001-10-25 6.8Mb
Executable (.rpm) ix86-Linux (RH7.2) 1.10 2001-10-25 4.9Mb

Alternative locations:
Tarfiles and RPMs: ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/haskell/nhc98/ http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/nhc98src-1.12.tar.gz http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/nhc98-1.12-ix86-Linux.tar.gz
ix86-Linux RPMs for SuSE 7.1: http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/hmake-2.03-1.i386.rpm http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/nhc98-1.10-1.i386.rpm http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/nhc98-1.10-1.src.rpm
ix86-Linux RPMs for RedHat 7: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d95mback/nhc98/
ix86-Linux for Debian: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/nhc98
http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/debian/
ix86-FreeBSD for 4.4-Stable: http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/People/obraun/nhc98-1.10-basic-freebsd.tgz
http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/People/obraun/nhc98-1.10-with_tracer-freebsd.tgz


Known to compile for at least the following machine/OS combinations:
ix86Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, CYGWIN_NT4, CYGWIN_95
ppcLinux
sparcsolaris2, SunOS4
mipsIRIX5, Ultrix-4.5, [NOT IRIX6]
power3AIX
pmaxNetBSD

All the documents available on the web are included in all the packages. (* Please note that options/instructions for out-of-date packages may differ slightly from the ones on the web. Always follow the instructions from the package itself.)

The unified source tree contains the complete Haskell sources for the compiler, runtime system, standard prelude, and libraries (including Binary, FFI, IOExtras, etc) for nhc98, and current versions of GreenCard, hp2graph, hmake, and the Hat tracing tools. In addition, it contains bootstrapping C sources in case you don't already have a Haskell compiler to build nhc98 with.

The binary packages contain just the executables, interface files, and object files for the compiler, runtime system, standard prelude, libraries (including Binary, FFI, IOExtras, etc), GreenCard, hp2graph, hmake and the Hat tracing tools. In short, everything (except the sources) needed for normal compilation, heap profiling, time profiling, and tracing - the full works.

The installation instructions should be comprehensive, but if you have any problems, please mail nhc-bugs@haskell.org. (You do not need to be a member of the list to post to it.)


Patches

patch name patch to date fixes what problem?
nhc98 v1.12 There are no patches for version 1.12 yet. All of the following patches are for the older version 1.10.
IO nhc98 v1.10 2001-12-18 The IO library did not re-export the PreludeIO definitions.
lhs nhc98 v1.10 2001-12-17 Hmake formerly preferred a .hs file over a .lhs file. This patch reverses the preference.
patterns nhc98 v1.10 2001-12-10 An infix pattern decl of the form
a `Foo` (b `Bar` c) = 3 `Foo` (4 `Bar` 5)
could not be compiled because the parser lost the explicit bracketing on the LHS.
commas nhc98 v1.10 2001-12-10 Allow an empty import/export decl with a single stray comma.
blockbuffer nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-28 Fix block-buffered file handles, so that they produce output exactly when the buffer is full.
keywords nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-12 Do not treat `qualified', `hiding', or `interface' as keywords of the language - they are significant only in certain positions.
counter nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-12 Increase garbage collection counters to 64-bits for correct reports in long-running computations.
hp2graph nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-09 Workaround for a rare buffer problem in hp2graph.
arrow nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-08 Accept `instance ClassName (Prelude.->)' in source and interface files.
MacOS X nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-08 Bugfix to pass PowerPC endianness into the build on a MacOS X machine.
hiding nhc98 v1.10 2001-11-01 Where an entire module is re-exported, but one of its variables is hidden on import, the hidden variable should not be re-exported.
Array nhc98 v1.10 2001-10-24 Fix link message "undefined reference to `FN_Ix_46_95_46Unknown_46variable'" when using library Array.
ghc5.02 nhc98 v1.10 2001-10-23 Update configuration script (again) to detect ghc-5.02 correctly.



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This page last modified: 2002.03.15
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