On February 22, 2010 17:00:25 Max Bolingbroke wrote:
Hi Tyson,
This blog post (/) might help explain the motivation (actually there are a few relevant posts on the well-typed site).
Essentially, I believe that this is done so that you can vary the RTS by changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I've never used this facility so I'm unable to say how useful this actually is (or if it actually works at the moment).
Thanks Max. Those were good write ups. I'm pleased to report that I've got GHC hooked into Perl as a shared library (i.e., can call my GHC code from Perl). I'm working on trying to get a reasonable build system solution now. So far I've been trying to build a single shared library, but I thinking the easiest/intended way might be to just get GHC to just build its own library and then specify it as a required shared library to the Perl stub library. This way I wouldn't have to mix flags from the build systems in the final link. (although a shared library of stubs to a shared library seems a bit strange) Cheers! -Tyson PS: Thanks to everyone responsible for getting shared libraries working.