Re: ghc - force library search order

On 29/05/2009 15:19, John Lask wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Coutts" To: "John Lask" Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc - force library search order

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On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 18:08 +1000, John Lask wrote:

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I need to force a library to be searched for unresolved symbols after all other libraries have been searched, and I would rather not resort to constructing the linker command line directly. Is there a way to do this?

i.e. I want for example -lfoo to appear after all other haskell libraries and before system libraries (for example -lmsvcrt) once ghc has constructed the link command. i.e. how is it possible to coerce ghc into respecting dependencies between the libraries. GHC does a good job in general with native libraries, but there are allways corner cases.

I have a feeling this is not possible, but it dosn't hurt to ask.

No, there's currently no way to inject flags that come *after* the linker flags for the packages on the linker command line. It might help if you describe at a higher level what it is you're trying to do. There might be a better way to achieve it. Cheers, Simon