[Haskell-cafe] DLL on Windows

[Neil Mitchell]

Oh no, I just give up on Haskell and use C# entirely - I'd much rather
program in Haskell, but if all you are doing is a simple Windows app
then a nice GUI is easy in C# with the form designer.

Thanks, Neil

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much.
>
> How do you use C# for GUI development? Do you use hs-dotnet?
>
> 2010/2/16 Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Serguey,
>>
>> A GHC 6.10.4 version of Gtk2hs:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00340.html
>>
>> I used to recommend Gtk2hs over wxHaskell for GUI development as there
>> was always a version that worked on Windows with the latest GHC
>> release. I think I might have to switch back to recommending C# for
>> GUI development...
>>
>> Thanks, Neil
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to, but I cannot. My code is tied to gtk2hs, which supports
>>> either 6.10.1 or 6.10.3.
>>>
>>> I put it another way: could I build DLL using ghc 6.12.*?
>>>
>>> If I can, I'll use 6.10.3 for gtk2hs code and 6.12 for all new stuff.
>>>
>>> 2010/2/16 Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi Serguey,
>>>>
>>>> I notice you are using GHC 6.10.3, I suggest you try 6.10.4 which I
>>>> know does work.
>>>>
>>>> I rewrote that section of the manual recently. I haven't had time to
>>>> merge it back in, but it might give you more help:
>>>>
>>>> http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2009/11/haskell-dlls-on-windows.html
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Neil
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I tried the way described in
>>>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html
>>>>> and i got this error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ghc -shared -o test.dll --make test.hs
>>>>> [1 of 1] Compiling Test             ( test.hs, test.o )
>>>>> ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>>>>>  (GHC version 6.10.3 for i386-unknown-mingw32):
>>>>>        link: GHC not built to link this way: LinkDynLib
>>>>>
>>>>> Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> How can I fix it?
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