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Check out some more recent docs: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html

I've never built a DLL that dynamically links against the RTS and base, however.

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Do you plan to give this DLL to customers/consumers?

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I believe the base package ships with shared libs, so no need to do anything for them. You have zero chance of compiling base yourself anyway :)

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Oh, I had seen that section of the GHC manual before, but I didn’t pay attention to the version numbers and I assumed that that was a separate section from what I had linked. OK, so I should just be able to add -shared to the ghc-options in my .cabal file.

This DLL will be shipped alongside an executable, so no, customers will not use it directly.

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If it's proprietary you might want to seriously consider using a GHC that doesn't use integer-gmp which is LPGL. See commercialhaskell/stack#399

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@3noch Thanks for the tip!

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@ndmitchell I have several builds of GHC using integer-simple but no good place to host them. Any ideas? They aren't integrated with MinGHC (yet).

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@3noch I would talk to GHC HQ, they are probably a good set of people to host them. Alternatively, @snoyberg and FP Complete might want to host them. Then again, maybe they are part of the MinGHC distro?

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