[Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from C, Linking with gcc?

[Thomas DuBuisson]

You are missind libHSbase.  Try, for example:

locate libHSbase-3.0.1.0.a

and link that in.


Thomas

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, John Velman <velman at cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:48:44AM -0700, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, Thomas.
>
> Linking in only libffi.a, libgmp.a, I get (for example, there are many
> more) missing:
>
>  "_newCAF"
>  "_base_GHCziBase_plusInt_closure"
>  "_base_GHCziList_zzipWith_info"
>  "_base_GHCziList_lvl5_closure"
>
> by also linking in libHSrts.a, I no longer am missing _newCAF, (and others
> that were missing without it) but am missing a lot of _base_GHCzi...
> references.  I've been unable to track these down.
>
> By the way, I can't find either a libc.a or libm.a on this machine using
> either locate or spotlight.
>
> Is there a way to "guess" which library things are in, short of doing
> an nm with some appropriate option on each .a file in the Haskell lib?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John V.
>
>
>> Generally you should be able to tell which library you're missing
>> based on the names of the undefined symbols.  Have you link in...
>> libgmp.a? libm.a? libc.a?  What are the missing symbols?
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:44 AM, John Velman <velman at cox.net> wrote:
>> > I think if I knew which libraries to add to the gcc link, I could make this
>> > work, but can't seem to find out from the documentation.
>> >
>> > Here are more specifics:
>> >
>> > I'd like to build a Cocoa  program on OS X with the Aqua user interface
>> > using Xcode, but using a Haskell module with functions accessed through the
>> > foreign export  interface.  In fact this seems to fit in well with the
>> > Apple Model-View-Control programming pattern, with Haskell implementation
>> > of the Model, maybe some of the Control,  and Cocoa implementation of the
>> > View and some of the Control.
>> >
>> > I've put together a short program (from the Wiki calling Haskell from C
>> > example) and compiling and linking with ghc it runs as advertised.
>> >
>> > As an experiment, I put the c main program into an Xcode project, added the
>> > haskell module .o and stub.o, stub.h files.  Also added the HsFFI.h.  Then
>> > did a build and run.  As expected I got a bunch of missing entry points
>> > (26, if I recall correctly).  Adding libffi.a and libHSrts.a brings me up
>> > to 56 missing entry points. Searching the other lib files for these seems
>> > pretty hopeless.
>> >
>> > Any pointers to documentation, or other help will be greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > John Velman
>> >
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