GHC as a library - getting output from GHCI

[Pepe Iborra]

I believe that the trick is to wrap your stmt in a IO handler that  
captures stdout and returns it together with the value of your stmt.  
That is, something with a type:

wrapStmt :: IO a -> IO (a,String)

It should be easy to implement wrapStmt using System.Posix.Process.  
Then you just define

runStmt' session stmt = runStmt session ("wrapStmt $ " ++ stmt)

Good Luck!

On 04/05/2007, at 18:04, Mads Lindstrøm wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to use GHC as a library (see
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/As_a_library ). I want to get  
> all the
> output from an interactive session and put in a GUI. This
> http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/5/51/Interactive.hs seemed to be a
> nice starting point.
>
> However, the result of:
>
> GHC.runStmt session stmt
>
> does not include the output of evaluating the statement (stmt above) -
> just the names of bound names. That is if stmt eqauls "3 + 5" then
> GHC.runStmt do not return a string equaling "8", but just the "it"- 
> name
> (which is bound to 8).
>
> The output is printed to standard output :( And I do not see and easy
> way to get hold of it. The only way I see, is having the GUI in one
> process and "GHC as a library" in another process.
>
> Do anybody know of an easy way to get hold of the output from "GHC  
> as a
> library" - the output currently printed to standard output?
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Mads Lindstrøm
>
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