Christiaan suggested that I try cabal installing
"--disable-library-vanilla" which I combined with --enable-shared. It
almost works. It causes ghc to only create the dynamic libraries. However,
ghc-pkg register fails with the error:
/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg update - --global --user
--package-db=dist/package.conf.inplace
cabal: TestLib-0.1.0.0: cannot find libHSTestLib-0.1.0.0.a on library path
(use --force to override)
Failed to install TestLib-0.1.0.0
It seems that ghc-pkg thinks that we must have the .a files to register the
package. (I scanned the ghc-pkg source and it looks like checkHSLib is
where this check happens.)
So, is the check in ghc-pkg really correct? I.e. the package would be
unusable without the .a file? Or would this be OK, so we really should
change ghc-pkg?
-Andi
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Andreas Voellmy
Hi all,
Is it possible to have a Haskell package that only includes a dynamic library and .dyn_hi files? I.e. it would omit the .o and .a files? I tried building a library using cabal and --enable-shared. It still includes the .o and .a files.
Will builds with "-dynamic" and loading modules in ghci work correctly if I just delete the .o and .a files? I did a few experiments and it seems to work OK, although it seems that things break if I delete the .hi files, even though I'd expect only the .dyn_hi files would be used.
-Andi