Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
I want to be fair with respect to my motivation to dynamic library
support: I won't complete it. Windows is just to annoying and I find
myself postponing hacking on it week by week. I just have to face it,
it's too annoying uninteresting and the last strange error message on
darcs pulling under cygwin is one that I don't want to be bothered
with.
However, if someone wants to pick up, that would make sense as from my
perspective it's mostly done, but the infamous 20% of work that
accounts for 80% of the success is still missing. Please drop by on
irc, #ghc if you are interested for further details.
On behalf of the GHC Team I'd just like to say a big thanks for all the
work you've put into this so far - in particular we're very grateful that
you decided to continue working on this after the SoC had ended. Shared
libraries are one of the big propositions in GHC 6.10, and I'm certainly
looking forward to having shared libraries in GHC.
Last I checked on x86_64/Linux, it was just working, and I couldn't measure
any performance drop. We have some issues related to distribution and
installation still to resolve, as you know, but I don't think there are any
fundamental issues there.
I think Windows DLLs shouldn't be too hard, it's mostly there already, just
a few bugs left to squash, and we have to deal with the
distribution/installation issues there too (different on every platform,
sadly!). Volunteers who would like to help out are most definitely welcome.
Cheers,
Simon
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