Re: [Haskell-cafe] Linker problems linking FFI import call in Windows

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM, PJ Durai wrote:

I do have the import library. It came with the DLL. It links properly when I use CCALL on the haskell import statements. Doesnt link when I use STDCALL. It looks for function name with something like '@4 or @8' tacked on at the end. Not sure what that is all about.

Is your import library a ".lib" or a ".a" file? If you have a ".lib" import library ghc will ignore it and link directly with the DLL. I think you can convert a ".lib" to a ".a" using the reimp tool which is part of the mingw utilities.