Making GHCi awesomer?

[George Colpitts]

Along the lines of making GHCi better it would be very nice if we could use
SDL, OpenGL etc in GHCi.

Is there a characterization of the libraries that we can't use in ghci?

As you know this has been a problem for years. Is there an open bug about
it?

I know there was some hope that dynamic linking in 7.8.3 would fix this.
What has been your experience?

For some reason I get mail to ghc-devs but can't send mail to the mailing
list.

Thanks
George

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Done <chrisdone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> ​...
>
> For years I’ve been using GHCi as a base and it’s been very reliable
> for almost every project I’ve done (the only exceptions are things
> like SDL and OpenGL, which are well known to be difficult to load in
> GHCi, at least on Linux). I think we’ve built up
> a good set of functionality
> <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/wiki/Haskell-Interactive-Mode>
> purely based on asking GHCi things and getting it to do things.
>
>
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