[Haskell-cafe] Compilation error in Chapter 5 of "Real World Haskell"

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Paul Reiners <paul.reiners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do the following from Chapter 5 of "Real World Haskell":
>
> Our choice of naming for the source file and function is deliberate. To
> create an executable, ghc expects a module named Main that contains a
> function named main. The main function is the one that will be called when
> we run the program once we've built it. 6 comments
>
> ghc -o simple Main.hs SimpleJSON.o
>
> ---from
> http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/writing-a-library-working-with-json-data.html
>
> When I do that, I get this error:
>
> C:\ch05>ghc -o simple Main.hs SimpleJSON.o
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
> Linking simple.exe ...
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x0): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getArray_closure'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x0): first defined here
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.text+0x54): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getArray_info'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.text+0x54): first defined here
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x4): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getObject_closure'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x4): first defined here
>
> What's going wrong here?

It's hard to say without being able to compile your example locally.
Could you post the exact files Main.hs and SimpleJSON.hs that you are
using?  I scanned the linked page but it wasn't obvious to me what was
in your source files.

Jason