Linking with C++ produced by Visual Studio .NET on Windows XP?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

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Linking to C++ would be an ideal topic.  It's a regular question, and
not one of our strengths at GHC HQ!

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-
| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Cyril Schmidt
| Sent: 23 January 2006 09:57
| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Linking with C++ produced by Visual Studio .NET on
Windows XP?
| 
| I am far from being an expert, but I have seen no answer to your
question
| so far, so I'll tell how I'd do it (however ugly that might be). I
don't
| have a sample project, but it should be fairly easy to make it.
| 
| 1. Make a DLL project in Visual Studio. VS will create a .vcproj and
| .sln files for you. Add your C++ source files to this project.
| 
| 2. Create a .def file for your DLL. It might look like
| LIBRARY MyDLL
| EXPORTS
| 	function1
|         function2
| 
| where function1 and function2 are the names of the C++ functions that
| you want to invoke from Haskell (there can be more of them, of
course),
| MyDLL is the name of your DLL.
| 
| 3. Create an import library that can be used by ghc:
| dlltool -d MyDLL.def -l libMyDLL.a
| 
| where MyDLL.def is the name of the .def file, libMyDLL.a is the import
| library.
| 
| 4. Link your Haskell project, adding the library:
| ghc --make main.hs -optl-lMyDLL -optl-L.
| (-optl switch passes its argument as an option to the linker).
| 
| Hope this helps.
| 
| Cheers,
| 
| Cyril
| 
| ___
| 
| >Hi -
| >I'm wondering if anyone has a simple Visual Studio .NET C++ project
that
| >would demonstrate how to link C++ with Haskell (or vice versa). Ie a
.sln,
| >.vcproj, .cpp, and .h file containing one C++ function and a Haskell
file
| >main.hs that calls this function, so that if I click on the .sln file
and
| >hit F6 the VS project will build then on the command line if I type
| >ghc --make main.hs the Haskell program will be built so that when I
type
| >"main" on the command line it will run and call the C++ function.
| 
| >Sorry if this all sounds too basic but I don't know how to compile
C++ from
| >the command line at all or how to use make files, and I need to use
the
| >Visual Studio compiler because my own C++ code relies on Microsoft
| >extensions...