Linking to Haskell code from an external program
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Sun Nov 23 06:14:59 EST 2008
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:
Colin> I then attempted to move it into Eiffel. I can compile the
Colin> C code OK, but I'm running into problems with linking.
>>
Colin> I solved most of the problems by adding the -v flag to the
Colin> call to ghc which I used to link the original (haskell + c
Colin> only) program, and cut-and-paste the linker options from
Colin> their into the Eiffel configuration file. This isn't really
Colin> satisfactory - I would like some automatic way to determine
Colin> what the flags should be.
Simon> The only other way I can think of is to construct the
Simon> arguments yourself by querying the package database,
Simon> e.g. "ghc-pkg field ld-options rts", but you'll have to
Simon> combine the information from several different fields of
Simon> the packages you use, and basically reproduce what GHC does
Simon> to construct the ld command line.
Can you point me at where it does this?
Thanks.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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