[Haskell-cafe] can GHC build an executable from a C source file?

[Anton Tayanovskyy]

Works for me without the --make, as `ghc foo.c`

--A

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Manlio Perillo
<manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm checking if it possible to build an executable from C source files only.
>
> As an example:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main () {
>    printf("hello world\n");
>    return 0;
> }
>
>
> $ghc --make foo.c
>
>
> However this only produces the object file, foo.o; it does not build the
> executable file.
>
>
> What is the reason for this behaviour?
> I have tested with GHC 6.8.2.
>
>
>
> Thanks  Manlio
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