This is a Docker image for Quipper, a quantum programming language embedded in Haskell.

To use this:

$ git submodule update --
$ docker build -t ausbin/docquipper .
$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/quipper ausbin/docquipper quipper bv.hs
$ ./bv

To convert bv.hs to bv.qasm (credits to onestruggler) use:

$ docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/quipper ausbin/docquipper qasm bv.hs

Link to onestruggler's og repo: https://github.com/onestruggler/quipper-qasm.git

(If you're not on amd64 Linux, that last command should probably be in the Docker container instead.)

The example programs in examples/ are reconstructed from "Five Quantum Algorithms Using Quipper" by Siddiqui, Islam, and Shehab (2014).

Quipper appears to be dependent on an older version of Haskell and Debian, so the image pulls in an older (compatible) version of the haskell image. This image is based on an unsupported version of Debian, so the Dockerfile updates /etc/apt/sources.list to use archive.debian.org.

There is a bug of some kind with quipper-pp.hs (the Quipper preprocessor) in which Haskell is SIGTERMing awk, causing awk to fail. I have not investigated the issue beyond an strace session revealing the SIGTERM along with many single-byte write()s (functional programming elegance?), but I did find that quipper-pp.hs seems to replace convert_template.sh, a shell script in the "legacy" (tarball) distribution of Quipper. So the Dockerfile substitutes the Haskell quipper binary shipped with the cabal package with the original quipper shell script (also in the "legacy" distribution), which calls convert_template.sh.