_get_output_format link problem

[joeyh]

I have cabal installed WIn32-services apparently successfully, but ghc fails to link any program that imports its module. For example, examples/simple.hs.

Warning: resolving _IsDBCSLeadByteEx@8 by linking to _IsDBCSLeadByteEx
Warning: resolving _MultiByteToWideChar@24 by linking to _MultiByteToWideChar
Warning: resolving _InterlockedExchange@8 by linking to _InterlockedExchange
C:/Program Files/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin/../lib/libmingwex.a(pformat.o):pformat.c:(.text+0x1529): undefined reference to `_get_output_format'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This is using windows xp, so if it works on newer versions, which I cannot easily test right now, this might be My Problem and not your problem...

[mikesteele81]

While I don't test against Windows XP, all of the foreign functions being called should be present in that OS. Have you overwritten the cabal file's extra-lib-dirs field with a path to the Windows SDK on your system? See the package description for an example of what this might be.