#9215: GHC 7.8.2 mingw-w64: symbol not found in link -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: stuartallenmills | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86_64 | (amd64) Type of failure: Other | Test Case: Blocked By: 9218 | Blocking: Related Tickets: #9218 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): Some projects have changed their code: {{{ #if _WIN64 #define STRDUP _strdup #else #define STRDUP strdup #endif }}} * https://github.com/snoyberg/yaml/pull/45 * https://github.com/bsl/bindings- GLFW/commit/86271bcff4897c1c563af0058111705111d1ba7e We should probably not add any special cases to the linker (it's complicated enough already!) to effectively un-deprecate those functions. It is still rather unfortunate that those ifdefs are unnecessary though. @snoyberg might have an opinion, since he mentioned in https://github.com/snoyberg/yaml/issues/44#issuecomment-46459264: "There's no good reason why C code being compiled by GHC should need to be modified to avoid using strdup, that's certainly a bug in the toolchain, not the code." -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9215#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler