[Haskell-cafe] creating dll fails: missing references

11 Jun 2019

      HI all,

I try to create a dll with ghc (ver 8.6.5)  on Windows 7 64 bits. I 'am
using the dll with loadLibrary in a cpp program in Visual Studio. I create
the dll with: 

ghc Vogels.hs 

ghc -c StartEnd.c

ghc --make -static -shared -fPIC Vogels.o StartEnd.o -o Vogels.dll 

StartEnd.o defines HsStart and HsEnd to initialize and close the Haskell
runtime.

This works. I can create the dll and use the dll in VS.

But, if I replace in Vogels.hs the line b=True with   b <- doesFileExist
vogelsFn, creating the dll fails with error message: 

Vogels.o:fake:(.text+0x35c): undefined reference to
`directoryzm1zi3zi3zi2zmB9tglvOQ6L9Cf7zzVEJ1S6t_SystemziDirectory_doesFileEx
ist_closure' 

Vogels.o:fake:(.text+0x37d): undefined reference to
`directoryzm1zi3zi3zi2zmB9tglvOQ6L9Cf7zzVEJ1S6t_SystemziDirectory_doesFileEx
ist_closure' 

Vogels.o:fake:(.data+0xd0): undefined reference to
`directoryzm1zi3zi3zi2zmB9tglvOQ6L9Cf7zzVEJ1S6t_SystemziDirectory_doesFileEx
ist_closure'  

It looks like GHC can't find the Directory package. I've installed this
package. What can I do about it and how can I find out  the dependencies in
a *.hs or *.o file? Almost all documentation about dll's is about Linux or
about using dll's in Haskell.

Kees  

{-# LANGUAGE BlockArguments #-}

{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}

module Vogels (   

   loadVogels

) where 

import System.Directory

import Foreign.Ptr

import Foreign.Storable

import Foreign.C.String

loadVogels :: String  -> IO (Either String String)

loadVogels vogelsFn = do

   -- b <- doesFileExist vogelsFn

    let b=True

    if b 

    then return $ Left $ "Can\'t find " ++ vogelsFn

    else do 

            txt <- readFile vogelsFn

            return $ Right txt

loadVogelsFFI :: Ptr Int -> CString -> IO CString 

loadVogelsFFI messageKind vogelsFnFFI = do 

   vogelsFn  <- peekCString vogelsFnFFI

   eitherRes <- loadVogels vogelsFn 

   case eitherRes of 

      Left errMsg -> do 

            poke messageKind 1

            newCString errMsg

      Right txt ->  do 

            poke messageKind 0

            newCString txt

foreign export ccall loadVogelsFFI :: Ptr Int -> CString -> IO CString

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[Haskell-cafe] creating dll fails: missing references

Kees Bleijenberg