Ok, enough talking to myself :) If anybody ever wants to build hsql-mysql on windows and has the same problems as I had, here's how it should be done.
The problem I had seemed to be that libmysql.dll uses stdcall, but names its functions without @<n> decoration. Thus, when linking a Haskell program against it, names with @<n> cannot be resolved. The solution is pretty much a hack. Somebody from the Ruby community used to run into the same problem, from the same situation -- namely building ruby mysql bindings. Here is the procedure one person suggests http://rubydotnetproxy.rubyforge.org/mysql_win.html It worked perfectly for me. Of course, with some cabal specifics, which is obviously not described in the above page. The solution was to create a def file listing the names which could not be resolved and creating a .a file based on the dll and this def file. 2008/12/24 Daniil Elovkov <daniil.elov...@googlemail.com>: > Mm, actually I didn't change the calling convention ffi imports when I > thought I did. I tried to do it through defines... > > Well, by explicitly saying ccall I get the names without @<n> > decoration. And it all links well. But I get segault when I run the > code, which should mean that calling conventions didn't match. > > Actually I found some ramblings on the internet that there's something > wrong with libmysql.dll and libmysql.lib in this respect, but they > were from 2004. > > Thus the question: how do I link against a lib file in ghc? When I say > -lmysql on command line it strictly searches for dll and complains if > it's not found. Adding lib exlpicitly on the cmd line doesn't seem to > have any effect. > > Thanks > > > 2008/12/24 Daniil Elovkov <daniil.elov...@googlemail.com>: >> Hello >> >> How is decided whether the name of imported function gets the ending >> of the form @4 in ghc? >> >> I'm having this problem on Windows trying to use HSQL MySQL on windows. >> >> I compile HSQL Oracle backend and I get names without that. It's ok. >> With HSQL MySQL I get names with that stuff. It prevents me from >> further linking to dll. Supplying in the ghc command-line the "lib" >> file where names have those marks doesn't have any effect. >> >> The linker says that fn...@nn cannot be resolved. >> >> Can I control that? >> >> The ffi calling convention doesn't (and shouldn't as I understand) >> affect this. The only difference is that in the case of mysql the >> header file itself where functions are described marks it STDCALL. Is >> that the reason? >> >> Also I changed ffi import line from "hsmysql.h func" to just "func", >> to no avail. >> >> ghc 6.8.2 >> >> I'm lost. Please help. >> >> -- >> Daniil Elovkov >> > > > > -- > Daniil Elovkov > -- Daniil Elovkov _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users