On 09/08/2009, at 11:24 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
Hello, Could someone point me in the the direction of any references for using Haskell as an embedded language in an application. Xmonad seems to come to mind because the configuration files are written using Haskell. Any other information ? Thanks in advance.
In a Haskell application or a foreign one? Xmonad and lambdbabot are probably not bad places to start looking at methods to load new Haskell at runtime into a Haskell process. If you're looking at embedding it in a C program, http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Calling_Haskell_from_C is helpful, although it does require that you compile everything together at one time. I've been looking into ways to load haskell code into Ruby programs at run-time lately, which you can check out at shimweasel.com if you like. Briefly: dynamic library support doesn't work in ghc 6.10.1 at the moment, although it has at some point worked in GHC HEAD. I'm unable to get HEAD to build with --enable-shared on either Mac or Linux currently, you might have better luck. mark