On 08 February 2005 12:43, Lennart Kolmodin wrote:

I'm working on an IDE for Haskell, written in Haskell. Currently, I'm looking for a way to parse .hs-files for a module browser and I recall that Simon Marlow was going to release GHC as a package "soon". We could also use that package to compile source code without invoking ghc as a separate process.

What is the status of the package and where can I get it? I can't find it in the CVS or in any of the snapshots.

You can currently compile GHC as a package, but the part that is missing is a well-thought-out API to access the facilities of GHC. We'd like to do this, and indeed it will probably emerge as part of the work we're doing on a Visual Studio plug-in, but currently other things have higher priority. We plan to get back to work on Visual Studio during March. To compile GHC as a package, get a recent GHC source tree and set 'BuildPackageGHC=YES' in your mk/build.mk. You should also set $(GHC_PKG) to point to your ghc-pkg command. Then build ghc as normal, and in ghc/compiler say 'make install-inplace-pkg' to register the package (this won't do any actual installation, just register the package with your installed GHC). Cheers, Simon