[Haskell-cafe] Unknown symbol `__dso_handle' with Template Haskell and wxHaskell

[Scott Michel]

It's a side effect of dynamic linking, or, lack of support for it in ghci. You can't work around it. I've tried.

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On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Alexander Bau <abau at imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:

>> GHCi and cabal didn't work, but ghc --make did.
> 
> Neither GHCi, cabal nor ghc --make works.
> 
> I refactored my code, so that all TH related stuff does not depend on 
> wxHaskell, i.e. wxHaskell doesn't need to be loaded during THs code 
> generation. Then ghc --make works fine. But when using cabal, the same 
> error occurs. 
> 
> It seems to me that TH (when used with cabal) loads all packages 
> specified at "Build-Depends" in your cabal file (whether they are needed 
> or not). ghc --make instead just loads all packages, that are really 
> needed for THs code generation.
> 
> But this is just a workaround and does not explain why TH does not work 
> with wxHaskell. I think this is somehow related to the inability to use 
> wxHaskell inside of GHCi [1], because then the same error occurs.
> 
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/
> gmane.comp.lang.haskell.wxhaskell.general/923
> 
> 
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