On 23 January 2011 00:31, austin seipp
or what the current state of dynamic linking on windows is.
AFAIK it is meant to work. What I'm not sure about is whether any of the plugins code will have to be modified to make use of it. I suspect it won't since IIRC I went through the GHCi symbol loading code, which should have been extended to load symbols from shared libraries just fine. There is also an issue about whether the GHC executable is statically linked to libGHC or not. If it is, then you need to build GHC with ---export-dynamic (on Windows/Linux - there is another flag on OS X) so libGHC symbols are exported from the GHC executable. This is essential because you want a loaded plugin to link against the shared data in a *running GHC*, not a new instance of it. With any luck, nowadays GHC dynamically links to libGHC, in which case this is all a non-issue. Cheers, Max