[ ghc-Bugs-670756 ] package cc and ld opts inconsistent

Bugs item #670756, was opened at 2003-01-19 18:59
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Category: Driver
Group: 5.04.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Axel Simon (as49)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: package cc and ld opts inconsistent

Initial Comment:
I try to create a package which passes
"--subsystem windows"
to the linker. As far as I understand it should be ok to have
extra_ld_opts = ["--subsystem windows"]
or, as ghc itself does it
extra_ld_opts = ["--subsystem", "windows"]
in the package description. However these flags are not 
given to the linker. I tried
extra_cc_opts = ["-Wl,--subsystem", "-Wl,windows"]
but these flags are not passed to the C compiler either.
I finally succeeded with
extra_ld_opts = ["-Wl,--subsystem", "-Wl,windows"]
which I suspect fails when compiling with the native code 
generator.

I am using the MSI of ghc 5.04.2.

Axel.



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>Comment By: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Date: 2003-02-04 11:26

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The "linker" is in fact gcc, so when you add options to 
extra_ld_opts they are passed on the gcc command line.  If 
you want to actually pass options to ld, then you need to use 
the -Wl, prefix as you mentioned.

I don't understand your comments about extra_cc_opts - as 
far as I can tell these are always passed to C compilations.  
Could you give a specific example?

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