Hi Brian,
On 7/30/06, Brian Hulley
Still, a slight problem is that since there is one object file per source file, the names of the object files give quite a lot of information away about the structure of the program especially when they are arranged in a module hierarchy, so I'll be glad when GMP is replaced by something without such a burdensome licence. (Although perhaps I can bundle my object files into a single library file but I don't know how to do this yet, or if it would really help in the goal to make the code completely obfuscated, impenetrable, and unavailable to any rival company... ;-) )
Assuming gnu toolchain, you can use ld to link object files together in a form that is definitely harder to break apart. (incremental linking to incomplete executable, iirc via switch -x). That should allow you to produce one big object file (of atleast haskell bits and c bits) that gets simply passed to ghc. Using strip to remove debug info/symbol tables also helps somewhat. (strip.exe is not part of ghc distribution, but you can find it in mingw bintools.) Using ar to create archives does not help at all - you can extract the original files using ar itself. HTH, --Esa