#5987: Too many symbols in ghc package DLL ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.5 Keywords: | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: 3658 Related: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by rassilon): * cc: bill@… (added) Comment: Here's a pretty nutty idea: What if we split the DLL in parts by automatically forcing the .o files into partitions and create a .def file for each partition thus breaking the import library cycle. GHC already uses .def files to break the cycle between the RTS and the base DLLs. Then you would "just" modify Cabal to understand partitioned DLLs. Unfortunately, this might end up increasing the total number of partitions if you're not careful because internal symbols would now need to be exported from the partitions. :( -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5987#comment:15 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler