On 23 October 2005 19:00, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:

I have been trying to build some Windows DLLs with GHC, and I have run into some misfeatures or maybe I have misunderstood how to use GHC. Any help or advice would be appreciated. :)

First of all, I can't get ghc to generate stubs from foreign export in anywhere else than next to original source, which is sort of annoying. I would like all the generated files to go quite a bit diffrent place than source directory.

We don't have a flag for that; perhaps we should. Or perhaps there should be a flag that says "put all generated files here", that subsumes -odir, -hidir, -hcdir and also coveres _stub.{c,h} files.

Next, --make and --mk-dll don't seem to work together. Ok, what I do, is I just --make -no-link and then --mk-dll all the object files I find :)

That's true. This is closer to working in 6.5, we should make it work (if anyone's interested, this just means hooking up DriverPipeline.link with DriverPipeline.doMkDLL in the right way).

It seems that -i flag and compiling those _stub.c have following problem: if path given in -i flag contains any /- or \-characters, i.e. any real subpaths, it seems to stop with something like:

\source\sunrise\haskell\haskell\..\debug\build\haskell\plugin-hs-test/d: :

createDirectory: invalid argument (Invalid argument) It seems a bit random what is the supposed "filename" part of the path, typically it contains drive letter and few colons, it doesn't seem totally random data.

Could you give me a detailed description of the problem: the exact command line, and the error message that is produced. Thanks. Cheers, Simon