One thing I don't get is how, for GHC on Mac, this seems to work with out any fiddling at all; but on Linux it's really quite challenging.
-- Jason Dusek () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments 2011/12/1 Irene Knapp <ireney.kn...@gmail.com>: > Please note that when we build with in-tree GMP, we statically link it into > libHSinteger-GMP.a. Also, again only with in-tree, we patch it first to use > our allocator. Both of these things are to make life easier for users > creating hybrid Haskell/C executables who need to use GMP from the C side, > which is possible only by linking in a second copy of it. > > The typical trick to force GHC to statically link a C library is to give the > full path to the .a of it as one of the object files in the GHC invocation > that does the final linking. This means you don't need any -l or -L flags > pertaining to that library. Some libraries are very particular about the > order you list them in when doing this, but I don't really understand the > issues there. You usually will also have to chase dependencies by hand and > list them in the same fashion. > > Good luck! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 1, 2011, at 3:08 AM, "Edward Z. Yang" <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > >> libgmp and libffi are external libraries not associated with >> Haskell, so I don't think -static (which is for Haskell libraries) >> applies to them. You'll have the same problem with any other >> sort of library of this type, like libdl and friends ;-) >> >> Edward >> >> Excerpts from Jason Dusek's message of Sat Nov 26 01:59:18 -0500 2011: >>> Some time ago, I wrote to this list about making shared >>> libraries with GHC, in such a way that the RTS was linked and >>> ready to go. Recently, I've been looking a similar but, in a >>> sense, opposite problem: linking Haskell executables with some >>> of their non-Haskell dependencies, for distribution. >>> >>> I tried passing a few different sets of options to the linker >>> through GHC, with -optl: >>> >>> -optl'-Wl,-r' >>> -optl'-Wl,-r,-dy' >>> -optl'-Wl,-static,-lffi,-lgmp,-dy' >>> >>> None of these had the desired effect. In the end, running GHC >>> with -v and carefully editing the linker line produced the >>> desired change (I have linked to and provided the diff below). >>> >>> The effect -optl seems to be to introduce options in the linker >>> line just before -lHSrtsmain, which would seem to prevent one >>> from linking libffi and libgmp differently. Is editing and >>> storing away the linker script the best option at present for >>> partially static linking? >>> >>> -- >>> Jason Dusek >>> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail >>> /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/solidsnack/arx/commit/90ec5efdb0e991344aa9a4ad29456d466e022c3e >>> #@@ -122,10 +122,8 @@ >>> # -lHSarray-0.3.0.2 \ >>> # -lHSbase-4.3.1.0 \ >>> # -lHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3 \ >>> #- -lgmp \ >>> # -lHSghc-prim-0.2.0.0 \ >>> # -lHSrts \ >>> #- -lffi \ >>> # -lm \ >>> # -lrt \ >>> # -ldl \ >>> #@@ -136,4 +134,7 @@ >>> # -lgcc_s --no-as-needed \ >>> # /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/crtend.o \ >>> # /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o \ >>> #+ -static \ >>> #+ -lgmp \ >>> #+ -lffi \ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
