I can only speak for myself here, but generating Windows DLLs is simply uncharted waters (whether with or without Stack). I'm not sure if anyone else has given this a shot before either.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:32 AM, <nectar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > first of all - my thanks to the developers of stack! We use it daily and > it has really made a world of difference in Haskell usability. Well done & > much appreciated! > > > LONG VERSION: > I have a commandline Haskell program that now requires a GUI. This should > ideally run on Windows as we are controlling equipment that does not have > drivers for linux (an automated microscope). > > I once wrote a Haskell GUI program using wxHaskell, but found that I ended > up with spaghetti code. Perhaps I was doing it all wrong, but I have little > desire to repeat that. But at the same time I don't want to duplicate the > functionality of the Haskell code. > > I was thinking of writing a GUI in C++/Qt, which I know well. Ideally, the > C++ code would be limited to the GUI, and I would call into my Haskell code > using the FFI. That would be rather painless if I could compile the Haskell > code to a DLL callable as if it was a C library. Then it seems as if I > could just call hs_init on application startup and hs_exit on shutdown, and > everything is set. > > I have tried to Google this, but I seem to have found only scattered > reports. It's not even clear to me if it is possible at all. But in any > case I would very much like to stick with stack! > > > SHORT VERSION: > Is there a way to easily generate a Haskell DLL from Windows using a stack > project? I am really hoping that stack can do the hard work for me, all the > way to generating the header file and the dll itself. Would it make a > difference if were running this on Linux? > > If not, is this on the developer's radar somehow? > > Perhaps there is another way to solve this? Suggestions welcome! > > Thanks! > Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "haskell-stack" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to haskell-stack+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to haskell-stack@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/haskell-stack/19f83c48-4b2d-4cf7-ae9d-c262b85778d4% > 40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/19f83c48-4b2d-4cf7-ae9d-c262b85778d4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "haskell-stack" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to haskell-stack+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to haskell-stack@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/CAKA2JgLBoT6LSSZj9b7nnwvbt1p_mv%3DqHNJfckgt%2BPJZLP7-QA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
