Richard,
If you create a straight C header that's able to call into the C++ library then what you're trying to do will work. This is the standard (though frustrating) approach to using C++ libraries within Haskell. I can send you an example cabal file for building the Haskell code against the C headers and archives if you'd like. There isn't much more to it than what you're already doing though. The key is that the headers have to be pure C and you have to force cabal to build the C code with g++ (since the implementing .c files will necessarily make C++ calls).

Thanks,
Arjun

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Donn Cave <donn@avvanta.com> wrote:

Quoth Richard Lewis <richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk>,
...
> There's a specific question here which goes something like: how do I
> get hsc2hs to compile code that uses STL headers?

For me, that would be the first thing to fix. Use #ifdef __cplusplus,
or just reorganize, so the hsc2hs-generated files are just C.
You wrote your wrapper library for the C++ part, and if the callers
need to be C++ it kind of defeats the purpose.

>From there, I would have guessed "extra-libraries: stdc++" would do it,
(assuming you have also arranged to get your wrapper library in there),
but I'm no cabal expert. I use C++ more or less like you're doing, so
there's hope, but I haven't gotten around to the cabal part of the
exercise.

Donn

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