On 9/27/06, SevenThunders
Does cabal really work on windows?
I've never had a problem with cabal on windows. I use it instead of makefiles and I'm reasonably happy with it.
Although it's installed I notice that when I try to build my library using it, it dies on the first foreign import statement in the first .hs source it tries to compile. It is reminiscent of trying to import a foreign C module directly ghci. ghc.exe, on the other hand has no problem with it.
Perhaps your .cabal file is not correct or your cabal version is too old? It's very hard to say without detailed error messages and a clear description of what you're doing (with sample code).
Does this scheme address the problem of being unable to link external C libraries (a DLL) into the Haskell DLL? Are there any other workarounds here?
I only create a DLL from haskell and link that in a C++ application. I haven't tried the other way. Probably over the next month or so the DLL I'm creating in Haskell will need to access an existing DLL. Hopefully this will work fine.
Is it possible to create static link libraries compatible with MS VC++? Ultimately I'm trying to link my C code with Matlab. The C code stub will then call a bunch of Haskell routines.
I have no idea. I'm fairly new to using Haskell in windows. Jason