Create a static Haskell Linux executable

Question

It\'s not often two things I love so much come together to cause me so much annoyance (besides my kids). I\'ve written a Haskell program at work that uses libraries like tex

Answer 1

This simple example "works for me":

$ cat A.hs
main = print "yes"

$ ghc -O2 --make -static -optc-static -optl-static A.hs -fvia-C -optl-pthread

$ ldd A
    not a dynamic executable
$ ./A
"yes"

(and I've used this process, via .cabal, to ship executables for clients in the past couple of years).

I think the best bet is to file bugs, and get this working. The IHG can also fund work like this, but I'm fairly sure the GHC team would consider this a high priority, if you're trying to ship products.