[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform's libstdc++-6.dll may be interfering with other applications

[Andrew Pennebaker]

I use a number of different programming languages, so I have Haskell
Platform, Strawberry Perl, Node.js, RVM, and Git Bash installed at the same
time.

I've noticed that compiling packages with C dependencies (e.g. using
node-gyp during "npm install node-mhash", or doing "cpan install
PAR::Packer") often crashes during the build process with a popup:

The procedure entry point __gxx_personality_sj0 could not be located in the
dynamic link library libstdc++-6.dll.

As Roderich Schupp points
out<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=84949>,
it appears that the different libstdc++-6.dll's are interfering with one
another. Haskell Platform comes with one, Vagrant comes with one, GIMP
comes with one, MinGW comes with one, and Strawberry Perl comes with two!
Objdump seems to indicate that Haskell Platform's DLL is the one to blame.

$ find /c/ -name libstdc++-6.dll 2>/dev/null
/c/DevKit/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/Program Files/GIMP 2/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/Program Files/Haskell Platform/2012.4.0.0/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/strawberry/c/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/strawberry/perl/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
/c/vagrant/vagrant/embedded/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll

$ objdump -ax /c/DevKit/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3896] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/Program\ Files/GIMP\ 2/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack
gxx_personality
        [3499] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/Program\ Files/Haskell\
Platform/2012.4.0.0/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3401] __gxx_personality_v0
$ objdump -ax /c/strawberry/c/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3510] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/strawberry/perl/bin/libstdc++-6.dll | ack gxx_personality
        [3510] __gxx_personality_sj0
$ objdump -ax /c/vagrant/vagrant/embedded/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll |
ack gxx_personality
        [3896] __gxx_personality_sj0


Would updating Haskell Platform's libstdc++-6.dll fix this issue? Is there
some way to cordon Haskell Platform off from the rest of the system, while
still making ghc.exe and friends available on PATH?

Here are my system specs, I figure they're highly relevant.

$ specs haskell perl node ruby git os
Specs:

specs 0.4
https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme

cabal --version
cabal-install version 0.14.0
using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library

ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2

ghc-pkg field haskell-platform version
version: 2012.4.0.0

cpan --version
c:\strawberry\perl\bin/cpan version 1.5902 calling Getopt::Std::getopts
(version 1.07 [paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.16.2.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
   See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]
Nothing to install!

perl --version

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for
MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

Copyright 1987-2012, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or
the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.


npm --version
1.2.17

node --version
v0.10.3

bundle --version
Bundler version 1.3.2

gem --version
2.0.3

ruby --version
ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15) [i386-mingw32]

git --version
git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0

systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version"
OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version:                5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

-- 
Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.us
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