[Haskell-cafe] Can't link OpenCL on Windows

[Jason Dagit]

Mystery solved.

The OpenCLRaw bindings were set to use ccall but OpenCL uses stdcall.
I've updated my branch of the bindings.  Details on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7391634/cant-link-opencl-on-windows-with-ghc

Jason

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get the OpenCLRaw bindings to a point where I can use
> them on windows.  I've forked the the OpenCLRaw repo on github so I
> can make modifications as needed.  My branch is here:
> https://github.com/dagit/OpenCLRaw
>
> I've been mostly working out of my "FunPtr" branch.
>
> The issue I'm having is this:  I installed AMD's OpenCL SDK, converted
> their Visual Studio specific .lib file to a file that gcc can handle
> (.a file), but ghc can't seem to link with it.  I get undefined
> symbols for everything I use in the OpenCL API.
>
> I was able to build a "trivial" C program and link it using the .a
> file that I generated and gcc from mingw (not from the Haskell
> install).  I'm using the latest windows release of the Haskell
> platform.
>
> These are the steps I used for generating the .a file:
> http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=138890
>
> I used the commands in the example script (e.g., gendef and dlltool).
> I've tried to use 32bit everything as much as possible, as I know that
> GHC will want everything to be 32bit, so I don't think it's a 32bit
> vs. 64bit issue.
>
> Does anyone know if there is something different about invoking gcc
> under ghc instead of the gcc that I get from mingw?
>
> I've also played with the ghc command line (I used cabal-dev
> --verbose=3 to inspect the command line) and I'm still unable to
> massage it into a working state.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>