Andre Pang:
On 08/06/2005, at 9:15 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
Great! I fear I may have to leave the required build system changes to you. We're using a different build system.
Considering that this change will require build system changes, would it be worthwhile rewriting the C2HS build system to use Cabal now, rather than later?
Certainly. Do you volunteer? ;) BTW, there is one other change that I would like to do at the same time. It's rather inconvenient that the c2hs libs need to be installed by anybody using an app using a c2hs-generated binding. So, I like the c2hs support code to go into a plain .hs file that c2hs spits out on command (together with the generated binding). It can then be linked into the generated binding and application users don't get a c2hs dependence. As a side benefit that will make it easier to generate bindings for nhc plus we are getting close to supporting cross compilation (which Tony Sloane likes to have). Manuel PS: Elimination of the libc2hs will make building w/ cabal actually easier; hence, that change should happen at the same time.