On 21/09/2009 22:14, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
I couldn't find anything - happy to look into it if someone points me to the ticket.
I think this is it:
The problem there seems to be that the network library is calling functions that do not exist on older versions of Windows. I don't think there's anything that GHC can do about that.
Also this looks relevant:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/17456
Something C++ specific, by the looks of it. Are you sure the problem you had isn't just that the C erfc function is not available on Windows? Oh, perhaps the problem that Lennart is referring to is that when GHCi loads up a package it requires that all the symbols in the package can be resolved, whereas when you statically link a .a library we only have to resolve the symbols required by the library modules that the program actually refers to. So one workaround would be to link in a dummy erfc() function, or alternatively hack the erf pacakge so that it omits the offending parts on Windows. Cheers, Simon