Investigate building a statically-linked shared library

[olorin]

Would require rebuilding every Haskell library and potentially GHC itself, but it's the only way I can think of to be able to distribute a binary library that customers can use without needing to install GHC and compile the Haskell themselves.

[olorin]

Still working on this, getting GHC to build relocatable libraries is turning out to be a bit of a pain.

[erikd-ambiata]

Honestly, I would bring that up on the ghc-users mailing list. Its not supposed to be this hard.

[thumphries]

hit this on the weekend when trying to statically link against musl. I can get statically linked binaries out but not PIC PIE libraries. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9007

[olorin]

hit this on the weekend when trying to statically link against musl. I can get statically linked binaries out but not PIC PIE libraries. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9007

Thanks, finding that might have taken me a while - not altogether encouraging though.

[nhibberd]

What versions of ghc and cabal?

[olorin]

What versions of ghc and cabal?

At least 7.10.2 and 8.0.1, probably 7.8.4 as well. It's a GHC issue, cabal version isn't relevant here.

[thumphries]

a regular ol relocatable lib might still be possible, even if PIC is not :) good luck

(I thought they were the same thing until 10 minutes ago)

[olorin]

a regular ol relocatable lib might still be possible, even if PIC is not :) good luck

I'm confused, how do I make a relocatable shared library without PIC?

[thumphries]

ignore me

[olorin]

https://github.com/lyokha/nginx-haskell-module#static-linkage-against-basic-haskell-libraries

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4my2cn/a_story_of_how_i_built_static_haskell_libraries/

for later