I like to announce version 0.14.3 of C->Haskell, which brings the following advances over 0.14.1: * gcc's asm construct is supported, which is apparently important for some libraries on Mac OS X (thanks to Duncan Coutts for the patch); * C->Haskell supports cross compilation (see details below); [NB: C->Haskell now generates completely portable Haskell code (needs only H98 + FFI) and can target C compilers on platforms that cannot build C->Haskell itself; eg, PalmOS. In particular, C->Haskell generated bindings are suitable for nhc98 and Hugs, too.] * hierarchical modules syntax can be used in import hooks (again thanks to Duncan for the patch); and * two new built-in translation functions "upcaseFirstLetter" and "downcaseFirstLetter" are supported to generated suitable Haskell names from C names (eg, for variants of enums). Source code is available as a tar ball from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/ or via Darcs (binary packages may appear later). Happy Hacking, Manuel -=- Cross compilation -=- C->Haskell needs to take system-specific parameters of the C compiler used to compile the libraries for which an interface is generated into account (most notably when bitfields are used in this library). By default C->Haskell uses the conventions of the C compiler that was used to build C->Haskell itself. From this version, C->Haskell accepts the --platform=PLATFORM flag that enables the explicit specification of the target platform. This works only for platforms that are in C->Haskell's platform specification database. At the moment, that's only i686-pc-linux-gnu and m68k-palmos. However, it is very easy to determine the platform specification for any platform on which you can build C->Haskell: Just invoke it as `c2hs --version' and it will tell you. If you send me the output of `c2hs --version', I'll happily add it to the database. (If you'd like to target a platform on which you cannot build C->Haskell, such as an embedded system, let me know.)