GHCi and C libraries

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote,

> > Now each external package has to link its files into both *.a and
> > *.o files to make them usable with GHCi.
> 
> Julian is in the process of looking into the external libraries issue.
> The deal is that anything which can be dlopen()ed, or is a .o file, can
> be loaded by GHCi.  That just excludes plain old static .a libraries,
> but most of these have shared versions anyway.

GHC-built Haskell libraries usually have no shared version,
unless I missed something.

Cheers,
Manuel