I figured it out and wrote section 13.6.2 of the user manual asof GHC 7.6: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.1/docs/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html
No idea if it still works, but no reason to suspect it doesn't. Certainly it worked robustly at the time. Thanks, Neil On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/19f83c48-4b2d-4cf7-ae9d-c262b85778d4%40googlegroups.com. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/CAKcFpmJkOmqfZ99%2BVx%2BkjMfe8FmsvbwzOevdcAb%2Bn6STh5F-uw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
