Duncan Coutts wrote: > > Some are trivial and should be done away with. For example the ones that > just check if a C header / lib is present are unnecessary (and typically > do not work correctly). The next point release of Cabal can do these > checks automatically, eg: > > Configuring foo-1.0... > cabal: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries: > * Missing header file: foo.h > * Missing C libraries: foo, bar, baz > This problem can usually be solved by installing the system > packages that provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" > versions). If the libraries are already installed but in a > non-standard location then you can use the flags > --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where > they are.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For those of us who want to write cross-platform (i.e. Windows) bindings to C libraries, this is great news. John Lato _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
