On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:26:47AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
Hi.
What about adding another target ./setup plain_source which should preprocess everything (including cpp) and output the files to an extra directory? Why? This could be used for haddock documentation generation (Not sure how this is done) and perhaps to be read by future IDE's to provide compiler independent completion etc?
eg ./setup haddock on haddock sources itself fails on line
#if defined(mingw32_HOST_OS) ...
What do you think?
Sounds very cool. *However* the output will not be portable, since the FFI preprocessors work by inlining constants. It also sounds pretty easy. Look at the API docs (Distribution.* in your nearest GHC documentation bundle), see if it can be done in a stand-alone tool, if not by all means submit a ticket. Stefan