On Jun 25, 2009, at 19:01, Maurí cio wrote: >> I'm not too familiar with what Cabal provides at the moment. It >> can run >> c2hs and hsc2hs, but we need to use our own c2hs which is quite >> different. Our build system for one module (=cabal package) currently >> looks like this: >> >> 0. build two mini Haskell programs hierarchyGen and TypeGen >> 1. using these, generate two .chs files automatically >> 2. using grep magic, generate dependencies between different .chs >> modules >> 3. run c2hs to generate a binary representation of the C header file >> 4. run c2hs to generate .hs files for each .chs using the binary file >> from step 3.; generate file according to dependencies >> (...) > >> 2.-4.: This seems to be the major show stopper at the moment. I don't >> know if we can code this part of the build process using the Cabal >> API. > > Can such grep magic be made into Haskell functions?
Yes, of course. But it needs somebody who understands how to do this all from within Cabal. > What > about c2hs, do you think it's possible, just for distribution, > to pack all c2hs code inside Main module, and call it as > a library? I think it is no problem to depend on a tool in a Cabal package. So we could have a c2hs-gtk2hs which would be a program only usable by Gtk2Hs modules. Axel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
