[Haskell-cafe] Binaries using shared libraries with cabal-install

[Yuras Shumovich]

Hi,
As I know it doesn't work for executables, see
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/600

2010/3/15 Mathijs Kwik <bluescreen303 at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using cabal-install 0.8.0 on ghc 6.12.1 on linux
> I switched on shared library support on cabal.
>
> Does this enable -dynamic and -fPIC during compilation and -dynamic
> -shared during linking?
> Or does it work a little differently?
>
> I noticed everything works for libraries. .so files get created, and
> using ldd on them shows they depend on other haskell shared libraries.
> But for binaries, it seems it still compiles them with everything included.
> ldd'ing them shows no haskell-library dependencies and their size is
> quite big as well.
>
> Is it possible to tell cabal-install I want binaries to use shared libs instead?
> And is there a way to specify which RTS to link binaries with? (debug,
> threaded, normal)
> Or a way to defer linking to an RTS so I can do this on execution
> using LD_PRELOAD ?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Mathijs
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