Re: [Gtk2hs-users] ANNOUNCE: Gtk2Hs version 0.9.12.1 released

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Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 08:36 -0500, Peter Gavin wrote:
>> On Nov 8, 2007 6:38 AM, Duncan Coutts <dun...@wo...> wrote:
>>> Another alternative (as of GHC version 6.8.x) is to build Haskell
>>> libraries as dynamic libs. That would then put us in the same situation
>>> as for the GTK+ C libs.
>> Does GHC 6.8 support PIC then? 
>> I looked in the docs and it still says something about PIC only being
>> supported on PPC64.  Or do the docs still need to be updated?
> 
> The code is in there. I think it's not officially supported in the 6.8.1
> release. We might see it mature in 6.8.3. It's supposed to work on x86
> (32 and 64 bit) Linux, MacOSX (x86 and ppc) and Windows 32bit. It can
> build PIC shared object libs and Cabal has some support for it too.
> Personally I've not tested it yet.
> 
> Duncan
> 

Note that 6.8.1 does not work on ppc with the new OS X 10.5.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1843

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Chris