replacement of main

[mahogny at sirius.areta.org]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:20:42 -0000
> From: Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
> To: mahogny at sirius.areta.org, glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> Subject: RE: replacement of main
>
>
> > ok, I guess this is not something you do every day;
> > I am making a language binding for the library Allegro which has some
> > weird things going on. I need to make a main() in C.
> >
> > so I followed the manual, I export my non-main haskell entrypoint
> > and call it from the C main which basically is copy-paste from the
> > docs.
> >
> > when I compile everything
> > > ghc Halleg.hs Game.hs stub.c -L....(additional paths for allegro)...
> >     -lalleg(a few libs needed) -no-hs-main -o game
> >
> > I get this cryptic error:
> > ----
> > tcLookup: 'main' is not in scope
> > In the first argument of 'GHC.TopHandler.runIO', namely 'main'
> > When checking the type of 'main'
> > ----
>
> Which version of GHC is it that you're using?

6.0.1

>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon