Undefined symbols on new install of ghc 6.2.2

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Can't think of a reasonable explanation for the behaviour
you're seeing, I'm afraid. If you look at the undefined
symbols from the link, _ZCMain_main_closure
isn't being found -- it should be in Build.o, which is included
on the command line. The weird thing is that the linker
does report undefined symbols from that closure's
entry point, _ZCMain_main_entry (in Build.o), but fails to
see the (.data) symbol for the closure itself.

On the off-chance you haven't tried this already, could you try
to delete the object files and re-do the --make? Add -fvia-C
while you're at it.

If you want to examine what the linker actually slurps in,
try -optl-Wl,--verbose

GHC binary installs on Windows are islands as far as tools
needed to compile&link Haskell code goes. You may run into
trouble if you compile a .c file with a local installation of
gcc and then try to link the object file with ghc, but I don't
think that's the case here.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alastair Reid" <Alastair.Reid at arm.com>
To: "Sigbjorn Finne" <sof at galois.com>
Cc: <glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 06:16
Subject: RE: Undefined symbols on new install of ghc 6.2.2


> Thanks Sigbjorn,
> 
> Chris gave these a shot and everything looks right.  (i.e., the symbols
> exist, tmpdir is big and changing it doesn't help and invoking ghc on
> the .o files directly doesn't help.)
> 
> Also, building with the latest release of ghc works fine.  (This is
> slightly tedious because we need both 6.2.2 and 6.4 at the moment but
> we'll probably update our code to work with 6.4 sometime soon anyway.)
> 
> One interesting detail was that the .a file has names with
> triple-underscore prefixes but the linker error messages have
> single-underscore prefixes.  Is this just the linker deleting _'s when
> displaying error messages or is this the real problem?
> I'm not sure what Chris has installed on his machine but is it possible
> that if he had cygwin (say) installed the gcc from that install would be
> used instead of the one that comes in the ghc package?      
> 
> 
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