On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Magnus Therning
In my Cabal file I have defined a flag that controls whether tests are built or not. Now I'd like to hook it up a bit more so that './Setup.hs test' actually runs the tests.
This will allow you to issue 'cabal test' to run the test suite, but it may introduce other issues. I suspect that this won't work well with dependencies or language extensions defined in the cabal file -- I'm really not sure, as I haven't actually done this in "real" code. I just wanted to see if it would work a few months back. In the cabal file, set: Build-type: Custom Then, set the runTests user hook to the function that invokes your test suite: Setup.hs:--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell import Distribution.Simple -- The module with your test function, eg: 'testSuite' (see below) import Tests main = do putStrLn "in Main\n" defaultMainWithHooks userHooks -- I think the @testSuite@ function should have type Args -> Bool -> PackageDescription -> LocalBuildInfo -> IO (), but I'm not 100% sure of that. (it does take 4 args, which my sample just ignores) userHooks :: UserHooks userHooks = simpleUserHooks { runTests=testSuite } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my Tests.testSuite fn: testSuite _ _ _ _ = do runTestTT $ TestList [ testSimple1 , testSimple2 ] return () You should now be able to issue 'cabal test' to run the testSuite fn after configuring. I can send the whole sample project if you'd like. --Rogan