compiling libraries with ghc

[Simon Marlow]

> hi, i wrote some utilities to make my coding a little easier=20
> and i put them in some libraries. then to use them i made a=20
> package conf file and added it with ghc-pkg -a. i then tried=20
> compiling them with
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> ghc -package-name extensions -c Foo.hs
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> but i am not sure i am compiling it right as i get linker=20
> errors of the form
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> /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lDirectoryAndExtensions
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> whenever i try to compile a program that uses my libraries.

I can't tell exactly what's wrong from this error message - what does
your package conf file look like?

> i can fix this by copying all the .o files to libFoo.a files.=20
> what is the right way to compile libraries?

You should make a lifFoo.a for static linking, and a single Foo.o for
use with GHCi.  The documentation on packages in the user guide explains
how to do this.

Cheers,
	Simon