You are right, Portable Haskell Dynamic libraries do not exist because the Haskell standard does not talk about them at all. Portable C Dynamic libraries do not exist either. Given POSIX they exist, but if you happen upon a platform that only has a C compiler it won't have them.
On Dec 28, 2007 7:08 PM, Cristian Baboi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:18:33 +0200, ChrisK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > This thread is obviously a source of much fun. I will play too. > > Well, it starts with Wikipedia ... :-) > > >> > >> What is the definition of an entry point in Haskell ? > > > "Haskell" does not have such a concept. At all. An implementation may > > have > > such a concept. > > Then a Haskell module know nothing about them. > > > Most people on this list define "Haskell" as any attempt at an > > implementation of > > one of the standards which define Haskell, most recently the Hakell 98 > > standard. > > > This can be nhc / yhc / ghc / hugs / winhugs / helium / jhc. Some of > > these > > compile to native code, some compile to byte code for a virtual > > machine. If an > > implementation can compile separately, then it might support dynamic > > libraries. > > If so then a specific version of that compiler will define its own > > implementation specific concept of an entry point. > > How can one make portable dynamic libraries then ? > > >> What is the semantics of those entry points ? > > > It depends. For recent ghc versions, see its user manual: > > > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html#ffi-library > > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html > > The conclusion: > > Portable Haskell Dynamic libraries does not exists. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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