Hi all, Now, I am almost done with trying to install this package I am working on. But, somehow, I can't get it to work for both ghc and ghci. I have the following simplified situation: * a Haskell module, Foo.hs * a C file, foo.c * a C library that foo.c needs, /path/to/libs/libbar.so (I only have a .so version of the library.) I configured the package file as follows:

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Package { name = "foo", import_dirs = ["FooPath"], source_dirs = ["FooPath"], library_dirs = ["FooPath"], hs_libraries = ["HSFoo"], extra_libraries = [], include_dirs = [], c_includes = [], package_deps = [], extra_ghc_opts = ["-L/path/to/libs", "-lbar"], extra_cc_opts = [], extra_ld_opts = [] } <<<

(adding the linker flags to ld_opts does not make a difference for the rest of the story) To make everything work with ghc, I do the following: * gcc -c foo.c -o foo.o * ghc -c Foo.hs -o Foo.o * ar -rsv libHSFoo.a foo.o Foo.o Now, I can compile programs with "ghc -package foo". Great! However, when I try ghci, it does not work. So, first, I make a .o version of libHSFoo.a: * gld -r --whole-archive -o HSFoo.o libHSFoo.a But, when I start "ghci -package foo", it does not find the library libbar! It does not even find it when I say "ghci -L/path/to/libs -lbar -package foo"! No worries, we can make ghci read a .so file instead: * rm HSFoo.o * gcc -shared Foo.o foo.o -L/path/to/libs -lbar -o libHSFoo.so Starting ghci now loads libHSFoo.so, and everything works wonderfully. Sadly, when I try to compile something with ghc now, it tries to load the .so version too (instead of the .a version) and gets mad at me. What should I do? /Koen.