Cannot find normal object file when compiling TH code

[Simon Marlow]

There's a ticket for this:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8180

On 02/01/2014 22:36, Yorick Laupa wrote:
> Hi Carter,
>
> Someone figured it out on #ghc. It seems we need to compile with
> -dynamic when having TH code now
> (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8180)
>
> About a snippet, I working on that ticket
> (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7021) so it's based on the
> given sample:
>
> -- Tuple.hs
> {-# LANGUAGE ConstraintKinds, TemplateHaskell #-}
>
> module Tuple where
>
> import Language.Haskell.TH <http://Language.Haskell.TH>
>
> type IOable a = (Show a, Read a)
>
> foo :: IOable a => a
> foo = undefined
>
> test :: Q Exp
> test = do
>      Just fooName <- lookupValueName "foo"
>      info         <- reify fooName
>      runIO $ print info
>      [| \_ -> 0 |]
> --
>
> -- Main.hs
> {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
> module Main where
>
> import Tuple
>
> func :: a -> Int
> func = $(test)
>
> main :: IO ()
> main = print "hello"
>
> --
>
>
> 2014/1/2 Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com
> <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>>
>
>     Did you build ghc with both static and dynamic libs? Starting in
>     7.7/HEAD, ghci uses Dylib versions of libraries, and thus TH does
>     too.  What OS and architecture is this, and what commit is your ghc
>     build from?
>
>     Last but most importantly, if you don't share the code, we can't
>     really help isolate the problem.
>
>
>     On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Yorick Laupa wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Oddly I can't compile code using TH with GHC HEAD. Here's what I
>         get:
>
>         cannot find normal object file ‛./Tuple.dyn_o’
>              while linking an interpreted expression
>
>         I'm currently working on a issue so I compile the code with
>         ghc-stage2 for convenience.
>
>         I found an old ticket related to my problem
>         (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8443) but adding
>         -XTemplateHaskell didn't work out.
>
>         The code compiles with ghc 7.6.3.
>
>         Here's my setup: Archlinux (3.12.6-1)
>
>         Any suggestions ?
>
>         --Yorick
>
>
>
>
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