Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Somebody claiming to be Ian Lynagh wrote:
>GHC HEAD now has support for using dynamic libraries by default (and in
>particular, using dynamic libraries and the system linker in GHCi) for a
>number of platforms.
>
>The various issues are described in a wiki page here:
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DynamicByDefault

IIRC, one of the problems with dynamic linking in GHC is that when the GHC 
version is different, the ABI can often be different enough to making such 
shared libraries incompatible with each other / binaries made on different 
GHCs.  This makes distribution a potential nightmare (where you have to 
package all the *.so files and send them along with your binary, which is 
essentially the same as static linking, but more pain).  Is this no longer 
the case, or am I completely misremembering this?

Also, you say "for a number of platforms" and that wiki page says 
"Currently, we don't know how to do dynamic-by-default on Windows in 
a satisfactory way."  So I assume Windows is not one of the platforms that 
would be seeing this change?

-- 
Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
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