Sylvain Henry authored Jan 14, 2022 and Marge Bot committed Aug 10, 2022

This patch adds a new command-line flag:

  -fplugin-library=<file-path>;<unit-id>;<module>;<args>

used like this:

  -fplugin-library=path/to/plugin.so;package-123;Plugin.Module;["Argument","List"]

It allows a plugin to be loaded directly from a shared library. With
this approach, GHC doesn't compile anything for the plugin and doesn't
load any .hi file for the plugin and its dependencies. As such GHC
doesn't need to support two environments (one for plugins, one for
target code), which was the more ambitious approach tracked in #14335.

Fix #20964

Co-authored-by: Josh Meredith <joshmeredith2008@gmail.com>