FFI, DLL Linking, Windows Haskell Platform 2010

[Nabil Alsharif]

Thank you very Mr. Thielemann. I got everything working under linux, ghc 
links to distorm and the library compiles and works. After a little 
investigation I found out that, under windows, distorm is compiled using 
MSVC and I had used MSVC to compile the test C program I had written to 
make sure I could link to distorm before I started messing with ghc and 
FFI. The catch is that if I try to compile the test C program with gcc 
under windows it fails :-(. So I guess in the end this want really a ghc 
issue and it's more of a microsoft awesomeness issue, and made worse by 
distorm's support for mingw being broken.

Thanks for the Cabal link, I'm gonna write a Cabal package for this 
sooner or later.

The reason for using distorm is because we need to replace the 
disassembler pack with something more versatile.

Nabil Alsharif.

On 04/03/2011 02:57 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Nabil Alsharif schrieb:
>
>> The issue is when I try to compile the library the linker goes haywire:
>> C:\Users\tantalum\Documents\Research\distorm_test>ghc --make Main.hs
>> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
>> Linking Main.exe ...
>> .\Distorm3.o:fake:(.text+0x11b): undefined reference to `distorm_version'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> You must link the distorm library into the executable. Say:
>
> $ ghc -ldistorm --make Main.hs
>
> It should work this way on Unix at least.
>
>
>> C:\Users\tantalum\Documents\Research\distorm_test>ghc --make Main.hs -l distorm3
> I don't know whether the argument order matters.
>
>> Linking Main.exe ...
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2010.2.0.0\mingw\bin\ld.exe: cannot find
>>   -lC:\Users\tantalum\AppData\Local\Temp\ghc5976_0\ghc5976_0.o
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions? What is that temporary object file for?
> You may also try to let Cabal handle the calling of GHC. You may start
> with an existing C library binding and adapt it to your needs. E.g.
>     http://code.haskell.org/jack/jack.cabal
>
>
> You may also be interested in the disassembler package at Hackage:
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/disassembler-0.1.0.1