[Haskell-cafe] Compilation error in Chapter 5 of "Real World Haskell"

[Thomas DuBuisson]

This is a linking issue.  It seems GHC 7 automatically feeds the
linker SimpleJSON.o so when you explicitly provide it too then you get
those conflicts.  All you need to do is call:

> ghc -o simple Main.hs

Unless you're using GHC 6, then the original command is correct:

> ghc -o simple Main.hs SimpleJSON.o

Or even better, use the --make flag as that works with either version:

> ghc --make -o simple Main.hs

Cheers,
Thomas

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Paul Reiners <paul.reiners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do the following from Chapter 5 of "Real World Haskell":
>
> Our choice of naming for the source file and function is deliberate. To
> create an executable, ghc expects a module named Main that contains a
> function named main. The main function is the one that will be called when
> we run the program once we've built it. 6 comments
>
> ghc -o simple Main.hs SimpleJSON.o
>
> ---from
> http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/writing-a-library-working-with-json-data.html
>
> When I do that, I get this error:
>
> C:\ch05>ghc -o simple Main.hs SimpleJSON.o
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
> Linking simple.exe ...
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x0): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getArray_closure'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x0): first defined here
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.text+0x54): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getArray_info'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.text+0x54): first defined here
> SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x4): multiple definition of
> `SimpleJSON_getObject_closure'
> .\SimpleJSON.o:fake:(.data+0x4): first defined here
>
> What's going wrong here?
>
>
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