Success Story: Cabal and Dlls

[Krasimir Angelov]

Hi Jason,

I am using the same technique to build VSHaskell itself.

Cheers,
   Krasimir

On 7/27/06, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to report that I was able to use Cabal with Visual
> Haskell to build Dlls in windows.  I have posted the details about
> this on the Haskell wiki (and started an extremely minimal Cabal
> page).  If my content is in the wrong place, please feel free to move
> it (or edit it or whatever).
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal
>
> The trick was to take the final HSfoo-0.1.o file generated by the
> normal build process (and linked with the DllMain.c code) and tell ghc
> to build a dll.  I use -package with each of the dependencies in the
> cabal file to link with the needed libraries.  The resulting dll seems
> to be working.
>
> This approach is a bit hackish and while I've tried to implement as
> much of it as I can in a general way it requires you to hack your
> Setup.lhs file if you want to 1) build static 2) specify your exports
> 3) specify the name of the resulting dll.  Also, it's only been tested
> on my setup which uses Visual Haskell so it may not be fit for general
> consumption.  Finally, I just started really looking at Cabal
> yestarday so I may not have considered things which an experienced
> Cabal user would think about.
>
> Is it possible to get this functionality built directly into Cabal so
> that I tell it I want a DLL built from a library and it knows how to
> make it happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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