You need:

• A recent Haskell Platform.
• A C compiler, either gcc or clang

Most dependencies are on Hackage and can be installed via cabal, however, Hoopl's version on Hackage currently doesn't build with GHC 7, so you have to build that by hand:

$ cd some/temporary/directory
$ git clone http://ghc.cs.tufts.edu/hoopl/hoopl.git
$ cd hoopl
$ cabal install

Now go back to the lambdachine directory and run:

$ make install-deps
$ make boot
$ make

This should build the bytecode compiler lcc and the runtime executable, currently called interp. To run a benchmark use

$ make bench2

See the Makefile for more targets. The benchmarks are in directory tests/Bench/.