creating a library from haskell files and a c wrapper in Linux

Martin Norbäck d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se
10 Sep 2002 17:32:38 +0200


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tis 2002-09-10 klockan 16.39 skrev Simon Marlow:
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> > tis 2002-09-10 klockan 16.08 skrev Martin Norb=E4ck:
> > > Now I have done the following:
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> > > # ghc -fglasgow-exts -c Adder.hs
> > > # gcc -c -DDLL_IMPORT=3D -I/usr/lib/ghc-5.04/include dllMain.c
> > > # ld -shared -o adder.so Adder.o Adder_stub.o dllMain.o
> > > -L/usr/lib/ghc-5.04 -lHSbase -lHSbase_cbits -lHSrts -lHSbase -lgmp
> > > # gcc test.c -L. -ladder
> > > # env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D. ./a.out
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> > > and then I get the following:
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> > > a.out: fatal error: LOOKS_LIKE_GHC_INFO- is incorrectly defined
> > >=20
> > > What to do next, I wonder...
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> > Here are the files used so you can test for yourself. Oh, and adder.so
> > above should be libadder.so.
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> You can't make a dynamic library containing Haskell code on Unix, sorry. =
 What actually is it you're trying to do?

I want to make a library that can be used to link against from C code.

This library contains Haskell code, and I've made some C code to
interface with the Haskell code, using startupHaskell and
shutDownHaskell.

I want to make a self-contained library (which will contain the Haskell
run-time code, the Haskell code, and the C interface code) that I can
link to without having to use ghc to link. I also would like to make
this library dynamic so that I can dlopen it later.

When I link the .o files with to produce an executable (with gcc)
everything works fine. I get a binary that does what it should.

I don't see the reason why I shouldn't be able to link dynamically
against the same .o files when they are in a dynamic library.

And whatever the reason is, how much work do you think it will take to
fix it? And how easy is it?

Regards,

	Martin

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