[Haskell-cafe] Bulding a library for C users on OS X

[Chris Eidhof]

Hey all,

I'm trying to call a Haskell function from C, on OS X. There's an  
excellent post [1] by Tomáš Janoušek that explains how to do this on  
Linux. However, on OS X, it's different. First of all, it looks like  
the -no-hs-main flag is ignored, because I get the following error:

 > ghc -O2 --make       -no-hs-main -optl '-shared' -optc '- 
DMODULE=Test'       -o Test.so Test.hs module_init.c
 > [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Test.hs, Test.o )
 >
 > Test.hs:1:0: The function `main' is not defined in module `Main'

Second, I learned [2] that I have to pass in different flags on OS X,  
but unfortunately, GHC still wants me to have main. I'm probably doing  
something wrong here, is there anyone who can give me some pointers?  
(no pun intended).

I'm running GHC 6.10.2 on Leopard.

Thanks,
-chris

[1]: http://blog.haskell.cz/pivnik/building-a-shared-library-in-haskell/
[2]: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg51303.html