#8734: 7.8.1 rc1 ghci won't load compiled files ------------------------------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: George | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Documentation | Version: Resolution: invalid | 7.8.1-rc1 Operating System: MacOS X | Keywords: Type of failure: Incorrect result at runtime | Architecture: Test Case: | Unknown/Multiple Blocking: | Difficulty: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: ------------------------------------------------+-------------------------- Comment (by George): Thanks, makes sense. Can you confirm my understanding? to load compiled object files into ghci users must compile with the -dynamic-too option. Once bug #8736 is fixed :load will load a compiled object file into ghci. If so then the release note might say: {{{ On Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, GHCi now uses the system dynamic linker by default, instead of its built in (static) object linker. This is more robust cross-platform, and fixes many long-standing bugs (for example: constructors and destructors, weak symbols, etc work correctly, and several edge cases in the RTS are fixed.) As a result of this, GHCi (and Template Haskell) must now load dynamic object files, not static ones. To get dynamic object files, you must compile with the new compilation flag, -dynamic-too, which causes GHC to emit both static and dynamic object files. GHC itself still defaults to static linking. }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8734#comment:6 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler