Dynamic/runtime loading with GHC

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Great!  Simon M is going to take a look when he has a moment.  Meanwhile =
I'd like to encourage those of you who are keen on this stuff [Duncan, =
Andre?] to write up

	(a) how to use it (in SGML, to add to the user manual); see
		fptools/ghc/docs/using

	(b) how it is implemented (in HTML, to add to the GHC Commentary),
		including not only the new stuff, but what you know about
		the existing stuff
		see fptools/ghc/docs/comm

	(c) patches for what needs to change in the GHC and/or libraries
		code base to support it

That way it'll get into our main code base and get maintained.  Simon M =
has way too much to do! =20

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Andre Pang [mailto:ozone@algorithm.com.au]
| Sent: 21 September 2002 15:19
| To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
| Cc: Martin Norb=E4ck; Ganesh Sittampalam; Shae Matijs Erisson; Manuel =
Chakravarty;
| Duncan Coutts
| Subject: Dynamic/runtime loading with GHC
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| Hi all,
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| I've whipped up an example tarball of how to do "runtime loading"
| (similar to dynamic loading, a.k.a. dlopen() or LoadLibrary()) in
| GHC.  You can find it here:
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|     =
http://www.algorithm.com.au/wiki/hacking/haskell.ghc_runtime_loading
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| It's a little example stdin text filter program, that loads in .o
| and .so "plugins" at runtime.  New in version 1.1 is the ability
| to load .so files as plugins :).  I think that with a bit more
| polish, we may even be able to rename this to a dynamic loader
| one day.
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| Have fun!
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