[Haskell-cafe] When is extra-libraries config in .cabal
Edward Ing
edward.ing at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 12:05:44 EDT 2007
I am building and running some haskelldb/HDBC/HSQL libraries on
Windows XP (using the MinGW minimals system (MSYS)) with GHC
environment.
I ran into runtime link problems, foreign functions would not found.
eg. atoi,from C standard; recv from sockets.
To solve the problem, I added dll's to the build configuration field
"extra-libraries", MSVCRT (c runtime), KERNEL32, WSOCK32 (sockets).
This solved the problem.
1. But is there a better way to solve the problem? I am expecting that
those libraries are available through the OS and do not need explicit
loading. I am confuse by what does the loading of the libraries.
2. Does a UNIX/POSIX system not have this problem?
Information for understanding this problem would be great.
Edward Ing
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