Thank you for your answer. However, unfortunately up to now I'm so far
as before (means: I still don't know how to build a DLL from Haskell
code which can be called from VBA).
Is your Win expert back? Perhaps you have got some new information
concerning my problem?
Many thanks in advance, CL
> | What is the best way to call functions implemented in Haskell from
> | Visual Basic for Applications (MS Access)?
> | I suppose I will have to build a DLL with GHC + Cygwin, but
> | up to now I
> | didn't manage to do so. I there a "How to"?
>
> This isn't directly what you wanted, but: I packaged up Stg Hugs
> as a DLL which you can call from VB. You can ask it to load
> a Haskell module, and run functions in that module, passing
> results back and forth to VB.
>
> Building DLLs with Cygwin which can be called from the native
> MS tools seems to be somewhere between difficult and impossible,
> depending on who you ask. I never managed it. A much better
> bet is to use the Mingw32 toolchain to build DLLs -- that's how
> I did the abovementioned experiment.
>
> I think GHC supports generating Mingw32-ised DLLs, so you might
> be in luck there. Unfortunately our Windows expert (Reuben Thomas)
> is away until Monday, and he knows much more than I do.
>
> J
