Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:31:37 -0400 From: Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle@gmail.com> To: Haskell Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Dynamically linking frameworks on macOS Message-ID: <CAHNEpix8NeMNo=ur3FX_Hs4Li8RTx4t0KT7aUutVGcN4_J5XVQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi everyone, I'm trying to ensure that beginner-level code that uses reflex-dom can be built by simply calling 'ghc myFile.hs', provided that all the necessary libraries are available in ghc-pkg. This works on linux, but on macOS, it's currently necessary for the user to add '-dynamic' to the command line. In particular, without -dynamic, the linker fails to find "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSURL", which is a symbol in the Foundation system framework. Apple doesn't support (and strongly discourages) statically linked executables[1], so it's not terribly surprising that this doesn't work. Is there anything I can do to avoid the need for -dynamic here? Thanks, Ryan [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1118/_index.html