Windows DLLs should be working.

Andrew Suffield asuffield at suffields.me.uk
Sun Jan 10 08:32:51 EST 2010


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:55:35PM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> This isn't a patch that changes the default - I suspect Windows will
> build static exes forever more. However, there are some circumstances
> where you need Haskell to build with DLL's (writing Haskell COM
> components for example), and that's what this patch is attempting to
> do.
> 
> All your other points are accurate about the state of Windows -
> shoving dll's in system32 is not a good way to go, but it's a separate
> problem from getting GHC and Dll's working so can always be tackled
> later.

If you want to get this working with COM, then building an assembly
out of the DLLs is probably mandatory. So that's looking like the way
to go.



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