I'm pretty sure it's not possible under OS X, and just as sure that it would be really nice, because some OS X libraries I'd like to link to (JACK OS X in particular), don't provide static libraries. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Anakim Border wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to understand if it's possible to build dynamically linked executables under Mac OS X (10.6) with GHC 7.

Looking here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SharedLibraries/PlatformSupport

it seems like the support is already present.

Inside ghc-7.1.20110325 sources (the latest development snapshots as I write), I find the following:

# Do we support shared libs? PlatformSupportsSharedLibs = $(if $(filter $(TARGETPLATFORM),\       i386-unknown-linux x86_64-unknown-linux \       i386-unknown-freebsd x86_64-unknown-freebsd \       i386-unknown-openbsd x86_64-unknown-openbsd \       i386-unknown-mingw32 \       i386-unknown-solaris2 \       i386-apple-darwin powerpc-apple-darwin),YES,NO)

which seems to indicate the contrary.

GHC bug tracker, finally, doesn't show any open ticket on the matter.

Anyone has more details about this?

Thanks,

AB

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