I just noticed this project which I believe is absolutely awesome. I’ve never done this before, so I tried building the compiler by following the regular path. Ended up with all sorts of errors. I’d kindly ask for instructions on building this on an Apple Silicon machine. This is what I tried: c…

I am building it on an M1 Mac by just pinning tls in elm.cabal: tls ==1.9.0, ❯ cabal --version cabal-install version 3.10.3.0 compiled using version 3.10.3.0 of the Cabal library ❯ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version …

I would recommend building the Lamdera compiler instead. It has a stack based build which might go a little smoother. compiler/extra/readme.md at lamdera-next · lamdera/compiler · GitHub

That worked! Thanks Mika. I even have different cabal and ghc versions.

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adauguet June 20, 2025, 4:45am 2

Could it be related to this topic? Elm init tls issue
The error looks the same.

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