Re: [GHC] #8127: iOS patch no 19: Linking

#8127: iOS patch no 19: Linking -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: StephenBlackheath | Status: patch Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.7 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: arm Operating System: Other | Difficulty: Moderate (less Type of failure: GHC doesn't work | than a day) at all | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: 7724 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Austin Seipp ): In [changeset:98b0d05de35bd531102d832f3108050549fd781f/ghc]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="98b0d05de35bd531102d832f3108050549fd781f" Rework how iOS does linking (#8127) iOS has some particular constraints about how applications can be built: * We must generate a static library (.a) since XCode does the final link. * We need to carefully give the right set of arguments to libtool in the case we're generating an archive. * Dynamic linking isn't supported. * It can only be done on OS X. This patch cleans up all of the above. We add a new flag `-staticlib` (only supported on Darwin) that allows us to produce archive files using libtool, and a -pgmlibtool flag to control which 'libtool' executable to use. This fixes #8127. I believe this is the last piece missing from the iOS cross compiler. Authored-by: Luke Iannini Authored-by: Maxwell Swadling Authored-by: Stephen Blackheath <...@blacksapphire.com> Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8127#comment:6 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler