Adding a module

Edward Z. Yang ezyang at mit.edu
Thu Mar 16 18:02:54 UTC 2017


That's correct: if you add a module which is (indirectly) imported
by DynFlags, you have to tell ghc.mk about it so that the Windows
DLL splitting hack continues to work.

Edward

Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs's message of 2017-03-16 17:49:43 +0000:
> If you add a module to GHC, I know you need to extend ghc.cabal.in.   But also ghc.mk? Otherwise I get hits
> 
> 
> If you add a module to GHC, I know you need to extend ghc.cabal.in.   But also ghc.mk? Otherwise I get hits
> /usr/bin/ar: creating rts/dist/build/libHSrts_debug.a
> 
> Reachable modules from DynFlags out of date
> 
> Please fix compiler/ghc.mk, or building DLLs on Windows may break (#7780)
> 
> Extra modules: CoreOpt
> 
> make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/dll-split.stamp] Error 1
> 
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Is it necessary to have two places to extend?
> 
> Simon


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