Re: DLL thread safety

Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi,

I'm building a DLL using the instructions here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html

I must call startupHaskell before I make any calls to Haskell functions. However, that page doesn't detail any thread safety rules. In particular:

* If I call startupHaskell on Thread 1, can I make Haskell calls from Thread 2.

Yes - but of course you must wait for startupHaskell, aka hs_init, to finish first. Also you must compile with -threaded.

* Can I make Haskell calls from both Thread 1 and Thread 2 simultaneously.

Yes, with -threaded. Cheers, Simon