/dhc

Compiles Haskell to WebAssembly

Primary LanguageHaskellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Dfinity Haskell Compiler

DHC is a Haskell compiler that produces WebAssembly.

It accepts only a tiny subset of the language.

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Installation / Dependencies

Run nix build.

Usage / Examples

The dhc program takes Haskell source on standard input and compiles it to WebAssembly on standard output. Two IO functions are defined:

putStr :: String -> IO ()
putInt :: Int -> IO ()  -- `Int` means 64-bit integer.

which respectively call WebAssembly imports:

system.putStr (ptr : i32, len : i32)
system.putInt (lo : i32, hi : i32)

In system.putInt, we split the integer into 32-bit halves to make life easier for JavaScript.

The rundhc tool can interpret the output of dhc. It expects the input WebAssembly binary to export a function named main that takes no arguments and returns no arguments.

For example:

$ echo 'public(main) main=putStr"Hello, World!\n"' | ./dhc | ./rundhc
Hello, World!

License

All code and designs are open sourced under GPL V3.

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