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PureScript on Raspberry Pi

I was able to build PureScript to run on a Raspberry Pi 3B. Here is how I was able to install the result of the build on a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch:

1. Install npm
2. Create directory $HOME/.local/bin if you don’t already have one.
3. Edit $HOME/.profile to add these lines at line 18:

     if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
        PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
     fi

4. Log out and back in again to get the path set properly.
5. Download this tarball and un-tar it; it will create a file named purs.
6. Copy the purs file to $HOME/.local/bin
7. sudo npm install -g pulp bower

After these steps, I was able to:

• Do a pulp init, pulp build, pulp run on a minimal project.
• Do a pulp psci and define simple variables and functions.
• Add code like this and use it in a program (once I had done bower install purescript-math --save):

  import Math
  
  pythagoras :: Num -> Num -> Num
  pythagoras a b = sqrt(a * a + b * b)

You can contact me by email, but this is more of a proof-of-concept at the moment than a full-time project, so I may not be able to assist you with fixing bugs.