[Haskell-cafe] Dynamically linking frameworks on macOS (Ryan Trinkle)

[Thomas Jakway]

You could provide a wrapper script around ghc to pass -dynamic 
automatically.
Or when installing append alias ghc="ghc -dynamic" to their bashrc.
Not elegant but it's probably easier than any other solution.

On 06/24/2017 08:00 AM, haskell-cafe-request at haskell.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:31:37 -0400
> From: Ryan Trinkle<ryan.trinkle at gmail.com>
> To: Haskell Cafe<haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Dynamically linking frameworks on macOS
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to ensure that beginner-level code that uses reflex-dom can be
> built by simply calling 'ghc myFile.hs', provided that all the necessary
> libraries are available in ghc-pkg.  This works on linux, but on macOS,
> it's currently necessary for the user to add '-dynamic' to the command
> line.  In particular, without -dynamic, the linker fails to find
> "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSURL", which is a symbol in the Foundation system
> framework.  Apple doesn't support (and strongly discourages) statically
> linked executables[1], so it's not terribly surprising that this doesn't
> work.
>
> Is there anything I can do to avoid the need for -dynamic here?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> [1]https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1118/_index.html

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