[Haskell-cafe] FunPtr error?

[Judah Jacobson]

2008/6/9 Galchin, Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
> Ryan,
>
>      I tried but the compiler didn't seem to like the keyword "import":
>
> vigalchin at ubuntu:~/FTP/Haskell/unix-2.2.0.0/tests/timer$ runhaskell
> Setup.lhs build
> Preprocessing executables for Test-1.0...
> Building Test-1.0...
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( ./timer.hs,
> dist/build/timer/timer-tmp/Main.o )
>
> ./timer.hs:29:8: parse error on input `import'
>

Hi Vasili,

To fix that error, you probably just need to add the line "Extensions:
ForeignFunctionInterface" to the .cabal file.   (That is the
equivalent of calling ghc by itself with the command-line arguments
-fffi or -XForeignFunctionInterface.)

Hope that helps,
-Judah