[Haskell-cafe] how to link statically with a c lib ?

[minh thu]

2009/2/8 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
> noteed:
>> 2009/2/8 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
>> > noteed:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm writing bindings for the Tiny C Compiler.
>> >> It seems that tcc provide a libtcc.a but no libtcc.so.
>> >>
>> >> In my cabal file, I have
>> >>
>> >>   extra-libraries:     dl, tcc
>> >>
>> >> but when using the generated haskell module,
>> >> I have the following message :
>> >>
>> >>   ⟨thu at jones samples⟩ ghc -e "main" Test.hs
>> >>   <interactive>: <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: tcc
>> >> (libtcc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
>> >>
>> >> How can I generate a module linked statically against libtcc ?
>> >
>> > Without a .so you can't load it in ghci, but you can compile it with ghc.
>> >
>> >  ghc --make Test.hs
>>
>> Ok but what should be written in the cabal file ?
>>
>> I build a .so of libtcc so it works for now.
>>
>> Before I put it on hackage, maybe I can get a review of it, if
>> anything is fundamentaly wrong ?
>> It is located at http://github.com/noteed/tcc/tree/master
>
> In the .cabal file should only be:
>
>    extra-libraries: tcc
>
> I think.
>

Oh I misunderstood : I thought it was the build process which was flawed,
not the way ghc or ghci would handle the library.

Thank you,
Thu