Re: Compiling regex-posix on Windows

On 25/03/2010 22:59, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

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You can't load a .a library into GHCi, so you need to get the regex implementation from somewhere. Is there a DLL? If not, you'll have to arrange to put the code into a .o that GHCi can load.

How does regex-posix work in 6.10? I do not see a DLL included (and neither regex.h or libregex.a for that matter). I was under impression that a suitable .o file should get produced when I do 'cabal install regex-posix'.

regex-posix includes sources for the C regex library. However, the Cabal package for regex-posix on Hackage doesn't have these sources or the configure scripts, presumably because they weren't listed as extra-source-files in the .cabal file, so they are only in the darcs repository. The darcs repository is at http://code.haskell.org/regex-posix. I suggest grabbing that version and using it for the Windows platform build. (don't forget to autoconf!) Chris: can we get an updated regex-posix with the configure scripts and C sources on Hackage please? Cheers, Simon