Thanks for the suggestion. Is the "protocol" between Cabal and ghc described anywhere, or do I need to read the sources for that?
Also, is there a way to write a program that would be equivalent to "cabal configure && cabal build" without relying on cabal-install or ghc being installed, just by using the Cabal library? I realise that it would only work for build-type: Simple, but it might be still useful. * Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com> [2012-11-09 08:57:30+0100] > 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
