Dynamic linker under Windows

[Krasimir Angelov]

Yes. This was the problem. My GCC was 3.3.1. Is it documented
somewhere which gcc,binutils and mingw packages are required for GHC?

Cheers,
   Krasimir

On 6/17/05, Sigbjorn Finne <sof at galois.com> wrote:
> Odd, works for me using the latest HEAD snapshot.
> What does "gcc --version | head -1" and "ld --version | head -1"
> report? The snapshot was compiled using
> 
> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)
> GNU ld version 2.15.90 20040222
> 
> --sigbjorn
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krasimir Angelov" <kr.angelov at gmail.com>
> To: <cvs-ghc at haskell.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 06:51
> Subject: Dynamic linker under Windows
> 
> 
> > Hello Guys,
> >
> > GHC from HEAD crashes when I am using getHomeDirectory function from
> > GHCi. The problem is in __hscore_getFolderPath function. The function
> > body is:
> >
> > int
> > __hscore_getFolderPath(HWND hwndOwner,
> >        int nFolder,
> >        HANDLE hToken,
> >        DWORD dwFlags,
> >        char*  pszPath)
> > {
> >    static int loaded_dll = 0;
> >    static HMODULE hMod = (HMODULE)NULL;
> >    static HSCORE_GETAPPFOLDERFUNTY funcPtr = NULL;
> > ......
> >
> > When the function is called from compiled binary then the inital value
> > of loaded_dll is 0 but when the function is executed from interpreted
> > code (i.e. when the function is in dynamically loaded .o file) then
> > the value is 196940. Any idea what is going wrong?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Krasimir
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