using cabal to build ffi library that works in ghci

Question

I'm trying to package up an ffi library with cabal. Compiling a module with the library works and runs fine, but I get an unknown symbol error in one of the extra-libraries dependencies when loading/running in ghci.

I know that people recommend compiling a separate shared library for ghci, like in this question: linking extra libraries/objects failed

However, I'm not sure how to rectify this within cabal. Could anybody explain to me what standard practice is in this case?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you tried starting GHCi with cabal repl? Alternatively, you can run ghci -lyourlib to link against the extra-libraries.