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This page documents which hoops to jump through to make this happen and what the current limitations are.
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TODO write me |
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## Prerequisites
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- GNU Make
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- GCC (known to work: GCC 4.8.3, other versions may work as well though)
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- GMP (unless `integer-simple` is used)
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- libiconv-1.14 (compiled with `-D_THREAD_SAFE`)
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- binutils (for `objdump` and `gas`)
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- ...TODO...
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The [ AIX Open Source Packages](http://www.perzl.org/aix/) repository is a convenient source to get the prerequisites.
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A consequence of this is that building a GHC crosscompiler targetting AIX is quite difficult.
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Sadly (at the time of writing), `binutils`'s `ld` has only partial support for AIX. IBM's `ld` must be used. Also, IBM's `ar` is recommended over `binutils`'s.
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Having said that, IBM's `as` has deficiencies which cause problems when compiling GHC. So `gas` from `binutils` is recommended for building GHC.
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## Building
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TODO |
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