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5355	Link plugins against existing libHSghc	batterseapower		"This ticket split out from #3843 since it was getting too crowded

Once we can safely export all symbols from libHSghc through the executable, we want to link plugins against the loaded GHC library rather than a new copy. This has two benefits:

  1. Linking plugins will be faster
  2. We can make reinitializeGlobals into a no-op

This is currently blocked by #5292 because libHSghc exports more symbols than we can reexport on Windows. There is one suggestions in #3843 to reexport less: exclude more of GHC's dependencies from being reexported, using this snippet to get the package list:

{{{
$(foreach p,$(PACKAGES),$p-$(libraries/$p_dist-install_VERSION))
}}}

Once we have cut the number of exported symbols down enough, the patches in #3843's attachment 3843-v2.zip can be applied to fix this ticket. (There was a reported validate failure with this patch in annrun01 on x64 linux which should also be checked)"	bug	new	normal	7.6.2	Compiler	7.0.3			as@…	Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple	None/Unknown			5292