<div dir="ltr"><div>Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>As someone who started hacking on GHC last month I wanted to tell you that there is to high an overhead to getting started and overall to contributing to GHC.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing that can help is to make getting to the point of compiling GHC a much faster experience rather than starting off by dreading the process of installing dependencies. I created a docker image that has everything needed pre-installed. I do know that there are existing docker images for running the GHC compiler, but I am not aware of any designed for hacking on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. The beauty is that once you have GHC checked out, if you have docker installed you are a single command away from having a working GHC environment:</div><div><br></div><div>Â Â docker run --rm -i -t -v `pwd`:/home/ghc gregweber/ghc-haskell-dev /bin/bash<br></div><div><br></div><div>Once getting some feedback, I would like to document this on the wiki and recommend it for Linux users (definitely for anyone that is familiar with docker).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Greg Weber</div></div>