[Haskell-cafe] Re: HS-Plugins 1.0 chokes on simple test, WinXP GHC-6.6

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:52:10PM -0700, Conal Elliott wrote:
> BTW, to get hs-plugins to build, I changed two lines in
> hs-plugins/configure.

As it happens, I sent Don a similar patch last night, so hopefully it'll
be fixed in darcs soon.

> First I tried tr -d '\n', but it didn't work, and I don't know why.

Because it's a \r you're trying to delete.

> On 3/16/07, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
> >
> >I got hs-plugins to compile fine on  winxp, but now when I run it I get a
> >crash with this message:
> >
> >c:/ghc/ghc-6.6/HSbase.o: unknown symbol `_free'
> >
> >Don mentioned this is a known problem.  Is it on anyone's todo list?

Not mine.


Thanks
Ian