GHCI and archive libraries.

[Lennart Augustsson]

You can write a simple shell script wrapper around ghci that
takes care of .a files.

	-- Lennart

Keean Schupke wrote:
> Thaks guys... I realise it is a simple matter of unpacking the object 
> files, however when using ghci for prototyping, it can be more 
> convenient to have all the '.o's packed into a '.a'. As it is a simple 
> matter to extract the .o files from the .a, I would have thought a 
> fairly small change to the ghci code would have enabled using archive 
> libraries. I think this change would aid usability. I don't know the 
> ghci code at all, so it would take me a long time to make this change, 
> as I would first have to understand the existing code. I was wondering 
> if anyone familier with the ghci code could add archive library support? 
> I suppose as a work around I could write a wrapper for ghci that 
> extracts the .o files from the .a to a temp directory, and then calls 
> ghci with the .o files on the command line.
> 
>    Regards,
>    Keean.
> 
> Sven Panne wrote:
> 
>> Am Samstag, 3. Dezember 2005 15:17 schrieb Lennart Augustsson:
>>  
>>
>>> And on many platforms (well, at least a few years ago) a "shared"
>>> library doesn't have to be PIC.  The dynamic loader can do relocation
>>> when it loads the file.  (Then it can't be shared.)
>>>
>>> But this was a few years ago on Solaris and BSDs, it could be
>>> different now.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> After a quick look this seems to be the case on current x86 Linux 
>> systems, too: "Real" shared libraries consist of PIC to enhance 
>> sharing code at runtime, but nevertheless the dynamic loader seems to 
>> be able to load and relocate non-PIC, at the cost of less sharing, but 
>> often slightly better code quality. So the mentioned repacking of a 
>> static library into a partially linked object file might work for most 
>> common platforms.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   S.
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