Re: [Haskell-cafe] FFI for a beginner

I don't know how to make ghc load them without using either hsc2hs or c2hs.
I've had better experiences with hsc, but your mileage may vary.
On Apr 8, 2011 3:34 AM, "Andrew Pennebaker"

hsc2hs and c2hs are good suggestions, and some of the tutorials I'm
following use them.
But 1) Many Haskell FFI tutorials don't require them, so they only seem to
help, or only help in older versions of GHC.
And 2) When I did compile using c2hs, it just produced the same file, but
with filler comments like {#- LINE 13 #-}. And they still refused to compile
for the same reason:
ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.us
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jason Dagit
I don't know how to make ghc load them without using either hsc2hs or c2hs. I've had better experiences with hsc, but your mileage may vary.
On Apr 8, 2011 3:34 AM, "Andrew Pennebaker"
wrote: ncurses is proving too difficult to setup, so I'm working on a new library called charm. The C code works by itself, but I can't compile a Haskell wrapper for it. While the tutorials at HaskellWikihttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFI_complete_examplesare helpful, they're outdated. Argh! The docshttp://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#glasgow...say that -#include pragmas no longer work, but fail to explain how to load code without them. Suffice to say I have no recourse but trial and error.
GitHub: charm https://github.com/mcandre/charm and hscharmhttps://github.com/mcandre/hscharm
https://github.com/mcandre/charm$ make cp /usr/include/charm.c . ghc --make -fforce-recomp -o hellocharm hellocharm.hs charm.hs charm.c -I/usr/include -dylib-install-name /usr/lib/libcharm.dynlib [1 of 2] Compiling Charm ( charm.hs, charm.o ) [2 of 2] Compiling Main ( hellocharm.hs, hellocharm.o ) Linking hellocharm ... ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [hellocharm] Error 1
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
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FIXED IT!!! The problem with charm.hs and its FFI dependency charm.c is that both want to produce an intermediary charm.o file. Solution: rename charm.hs to hscharm.hs. Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrew Pennebaker < andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
hsc2hs and c2hs are good suggestions, and some of the tutorials I'm following use them.
But 1) Many Haskell FFI tutorials don't require them, so they only seem to help, or only help in older versions of GHC.
And 2) When I did compile using c2hs, it just produced the same file, but with filler comments like {#- LINE 13 #-}. And they still refused to compile for the same reason:
ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jason Dagit
wrote: I don't know how to make ghc load them without using either hsc2hs or c2hs. I've had better experiences with hsc, but your mileage may vary.
On Apr 8, 2011 3:34 AM, "Andrew Pennebaker"
wrote: ncurses is proving too difficult to setup, so I'm working on a new library called charm. The C code works by itself, but I can't compile a Haskell wrapper for it. While the tutorials at HaskellWikihttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFI_complete_examplesare helpful, they're outdated. Argh! The docshttp://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#glasgow...say that -#include pragmas no longer work, but fail to explain how to load code without them. Suffice to say I have no recourse but trial and error.
GitHub: charm https://github.com/mcandre/charm and hscharmhttps://github.com/mcandre/hscharm
https://github.com/mcandre/charm$ make cp /usr/include/charm.c . ghc --make -fforce-recomp -o hellocharm hellocharm.hs charm.hs charm.c -I/usr/include -dylib-install-name /usr/lib/libcharm.dynlib [1 of 2] Compiling Charm ( charm.hs, charm.o ) [2 of 2] Compiling Main ( hellocharm.hs, hellocharm.o ) Linking hellocharm ... ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [hellocharm] Error 1
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
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FIXED IT!!! The problem with charm.hs and its FFI dependency charm.c is that both want to produce an intermediary charm.o file. Solution: rename charm.hs to hscharm.hs.
Would you (or anyone else) care to update the tutorials on the Haskell Wiki? As someone wrote below:
While the tutorials at HaskellWikihttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFI_complete_examples are helpful, they're outdated. Argh!
It would be great if someone was public-spirited enough to fix this. The root page is here
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Using_the_FFI
which in turn links to the "complete examples" page mentioned above.
The docshttp://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#glasgow... say that -#include pragmas no longer work, but fail to explain how to load code without them. Suffice to say I have no recourse but trial and error."
Ah, now that is a GHC documentation question. Can you tell us what should the docs should say instead? Then we can fix the docs.
Simon
From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Pennebaker
Sent: 14 July 2011 07:57
To: Jason Dagit
Cc: Haskell Cafe
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] FFI for a beginner
FIXED IT!!!
The problem with charm.hs and its FFI dependency charm.c is that both want to produce an intermediary charm.o file.
Solution: rename charm.hs to hscharm.hs.
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.ushttp://www.yellosoft.us
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrew Pennebaker

I think you should definitely use hsc2hs.
It is simple to you use and would allow you to replace things like:
peek ptr = do* a <- peekByteOff ptr 0
b <- peekByteOff ptr 4*
return (MyStructType a b)
By:
#include "MyStruct.h"
-- ^ Needs to be defined in a separate header
peek ptr = do
a <- (#peek MyStruct, foo) ptr
b <- (#peek MyStruct, bar) ptr
return (MyStructType a b)
But I just know hsc2hs. Does c2hs automatically writes the Storable
instances ? (Because it's kind of a daunting task...)
2011/4/12 Andrew Pennebaker
hsc2hs and c2hs are good suggestions, and some of the tutorials I'm following use them.
But 1) Many Haskell FFI tutorials don't require them, so they only seem to help, or only help in older versions of GHC.
And 2) When I did compile using c2hs, it just produced the same file, but with filler comments like {#- LINE 13 #-}. And they still refused to compile for the same reason:
ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jason Dagit
wrote: I don't know how to make ghc load them without using either hsc2hs or c2hs. I've had better experiences with hsc, but your mileage may vary.
On Apr 8, 2011 3:34 AM, "Andrew Pennebaker"
wrote: ncurses is proving too difficult to setup, so I'm working on a new library called charm. The C code works by itself, but I can't compile a Haskell wrapper for it. While the tutorials at HaskellWikihttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFI_complete_examplesare helpful, they're outdated. Argh! The docshttp://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#glasgow...say that -#include pragmas no longer work, but fail to explain how to load code without them. Suffice to say I have no recourse but trial and error.
GitHub: charm https://github.com/mcandre/charm and hscharmhttps://github.com/mcandre/hscharm
https://github.com/mcandre/charm$ make cp /usr/include/charm.c . ghc --make -fforce-recomp -o hellocharm hellocharm.hs charm.hs charm.c -I/usr/include -dylib-install-name /usr/lib/libcharm.dynlib [1 of 2] Compiling Charm ( charm.hs, charm.o ) [2 of 2] Compiling Main ( hellocharm.hs, hellocharm.o ) Linking hellocharm ... ld: duplicate symbol _Charm_getWidth_info in charm.o and charm.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [hellocharm] Error 1
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
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