Building the Elm compiler
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:01:51 GMT
I learned how to build the Elm version 0.19 compiler, in an effort to get it to provide full backtraces of a bug I was tickling. I failed at getting the full backtraces, but I succeeded in adding some debugging output. Anyway, here's how to do it.
First, you need to install Haskell on your machine. You need version 8.2.2 for the Elm 0.19 compiler. www.haskell.org/platform/prior.html
Then do the following:
$ git clone git@github.com:elm/compiler.git $ cd compiler $ cabal sandbox init $ cabal install
The Elm executable will be in .cabal-sandbox/bin/elm.
The first build takes a while, as it needs to download and build all the dependenies. After that, it gets faster. cabal sandbox delete lets you start over.
After making changes to the source, run cabal install again, and it will compile only the changed files and files that depend on them.
To build the entire Haskell stack, with stack backtraces enabled, from @mfeineis on the Elm Slack channel (I haven't tried this):
Init with stack:
$ stack init --resolver lts-11.20
Add options in elm.cabal:
Executable elm
if flag(dev)
ghc-options: -O0 -Wall -Werror -rtsopts -eventlog
Build with stack:
$ stack build --flag elm:dev --profile
Run with RTS options:
$ elm make ./src/Main.elm \ --output=./dist/app.js +RTS -xc -lu -RTC \ 2>eventlog_readable.log
