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Commit aeb9c936 authored by Simon Marlow's avatar Simon Marlow
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Document that -dynamic is needed for loading compiled code into GHCi

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<para>We can compile D, then load the whole program, like this:</para>
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Prelude> :! ghc -c D.hs
Prelude> :! ghc -c -dynamic D.hs
Prelude> :load A
Compiling B ( B.hs, interpreted )
Compiling C ( C.hs, interpreted )
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because the source and everything it depends on
is unchanged since the last compilation.</para>
<para>Note the <literal>-dynamic</literal> flag to GHC: GHCi uses
dynamically-linked object code (if you are on a platform that
supports it), and so in order to use compiled code with GHCi it
must be compiled for dynamic linking.</para>
<para>At any time you can use the command
<literal>:show modules</literal>
to get a list of the modules currently loaded
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