[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vacuum-cairo: a cairo frontend to vacuumfor live Haskell data visualization

[Alistair Bayley]

2009/3/31 Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com>:
> Maybe GHCi has a bug when it comes to DLL lookup.
> I had an application that worked fine when compiled with GHC, but failed
> with GHCi (libglew.dll not found)
> I used procmon to monitor which files the GHC* processes searched, and it
> seemed that the compiled version looked for libglew32.dll, while GHCi was
> looking for libglew.dll
> Since this only happened with our own wrapper project, I thought we made a
> mistake, but maybe you could also use procmon to figure out what GHCi is
> doing, it might be a bug.

ghci has a custom linker which behaves differently from gnu ld, which
is what ghc uses. I don't recall the exact details (if I ever knew
them), just that it differs. So something that works with ghc won't
necessarily do so with ghci.

Alistair