Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Would you like to add to the GHC FAQ, or even start a "Hints about using the FFI" page? http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC:Documentation (The section at the bottom called "collaborative documentation" is the place.)
Hard-won experience like this should be captured. GHC's documentation is a Wiki specifically so that you can record it.
Simon
Done. The page is at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Using_the_FFI and is linked from the Documentation page above. I've concentrated specifically on linking with Visual Studio C++ DLLs so that the examples are hopefully concrete enough for a newbie (like me!) and also since it should be easy enough for people to see how to adapt the examples when just linking statically to gcc compiled code (which should be a lot simpler). Regards, Brian.