[Haskell-cafe] How to get Cabal to spit out a .a library suitable for linking into C/Objective-C

[David Pollak]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you figure out what you need to know?


Sadly, no.


>  If not, I would suggest
> asking this same question but on StackOverflow (assuming you haven't
> already asked there).
>

Great suggestion.  Thanks!


>
> Jason
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:35 PM, David Pollak
> <feeder.of.the.bears at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to get Cabal configured to compile and link
> my
> > Haskell code such that the code can be part of C and/or Objective-C code
> > such that all the Haskell dependencies are rolled into a .a file and can
> be
> > linked by a normal C linker (e.g., ld).
> >
> > I've been
> > through
> http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#using-own-main
> > and the associated linked, but I'm unable to find out the Cabal
> incantation
> > to output a library that's linkable into my other code.  Any pointers or
> > examples would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
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