Hi, On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I have some kind of analysis tool that I want to run on a Cabal > project. > > The analysis tool only deals with Haskell files, so I need Cabal to > generate Haskell files from CPP-enabled Haskell files, .hsc files, alex > and happy files etc. > > I see two possible ways to do that: use Cabal as a library, or my tool > to be run by Cabal as a compiler.
I think that the path of least resistance is to make your analysis tool command-line compatible with ghc. Then you can use it like this: $ cabal configure --with-compiler=/path/to/my-ghc $ cabal build Since 'cabal build' usually just calls 'ghc --make Main.hs', you'll need to do dependency chasing, but this can be implemented by parsing the output of 'ghc -M'. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
