[Haskell-cafe] Tell cabal-install to generate only shared libraries

[Yves Parès]

Apparently, disabling library vanilla causes GHC not to generate the ".hi"
files :
For instance when 'cabal install quickcheck --disable-library-vanilla':

Registering QuickCheck-2.4.1.1...
cabal: QuickCheck-2.4.1.1: file Test/QuickCheck/All.hi is missing (use
--force
to override)
QuickCheck-2.4.1.1: file Test/QuickCheck/Function.hi is missing (use --force
to override)
[...]
override)
QuickCheck-2.4.1.1: file Test/QuickCheck/State.hi is missing (use --force to
override)
QuickCheck-2.4.1.1: file Test/QuickCheck/Exception.hi is missing (use
--force
to override)
QuickCheck-2.4.1.1: cannot find libHSQuickCheck-2.4.1.1.a on library path
(use
--force to override)


2011/11/3 Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com>

> 2011/11/2 Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I tell cabal-install to build shared libraries (with "Shared: True"
> in
> > .cabal/config), it doubles the libraries installation time since it
> compiles
> > them twice, since it seems that is what GHC's flag "-shared" does.
> > Is there a way to generate only the .so and not the the .a libs?
>
> --disable-library-vanilla
>
>    Do not build ordinary libraries. This is useful in conjunction
> with --enable-library-profiling
>    to build only profiling libraries, rather than profiling and
> ordinary libraries.
>
> Haven't tried it myself. Maybe it works in combination with
> --enable-shared?
>
> From: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/Cabal/builders.html
>
> >
> > Furthermore, I have the impression that the executables compiled by
> > cabal-install are always linked statically... Can I tell cabal-install to
> > activate the GHC's flag "-dynamic" for executables?
>
> The following two trac tickets mention a separate flag,
> named --enable-executable-dynamic:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/600
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/869
>
> If that doesn't work, you can probably pass some argument to ghc with
> --with-ghc-option
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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