Have you looked into using hsc2hs? If I understand your problem, it's designed exactly to solve it.
-- Carl On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeraga...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for your answer, looks like this is my only option to do this. > > Can you provide some information about what does parameters of > runCpphsReturningSymTab stands for? I made several attempts but > couldn't get any useful return value. > > For example, I have no idea what does third parameter does. Also, > second parameter. > > Thanks, > > --- > Ömer Sinan Ağacan > http://osa1.net > > > 2013/10/7 Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com>: > > If you use cpphs as a library, there is an API called > runCpphsReturningSymTab. Thence you can throw away the actual > pre-preprocessed result text, keep only the symbol table, and lookup > whatever macros you wish to find their values. I suggest you make this > into a little code-generator, to produce a Haskell module containing the > values you need. > > > > On 5 Oct 2013, at 21:37, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Let's say I want to #include a C header file in my Haskell library > >> just to read some macro definitions. The C header file also contains > >> some C code. Is there a way to load only macro definitions and not C > >> code in #include declarations in Haskell? > >> > >> What I'm trying to do is I'm linking my library against this C library > >> but I want to support different versions of this C library, so I want > >> to read it's version from one of it's header files. The problem is the > >> header file contains some C code and makes my Haskell source code > >> mixed with C source before compilation. > >> > >> Any suggestions would be appreciated, > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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