Hi Carlo, If a library uses CPP then there two things you have to be aware of. 1. The library could include macros (such as MIN_VERSION_...) which are generated by cabal. The macro file is generated by "cabal configure", placed in "dist/" and called cabal_macros.h. 2. The file can also have #includes, where to find these files is also specified by in the cabal file. Both of these are annoying to deal with because they require additional contextual knowledge not present in the source file. As a result most tooling asks the user to provide information about the location of the cabal_macros.h file and includes directory. Hlint is a good example to look at if you want to see how a library which uses haskell-src-exts deals with CPP. I think it also provides an endpoint parseModuleEx[1] which does the preprocessing for you. It has two strategies, the first is to simply strip all lines with start with # and attempt to parse the file. This is surprisingly effective as most uses of CPP are quite simple. It also has built in support for running cpphs as a library but the user must say where the specific cpp files (cabal_macros.h etc) are. Directly using GHC can in fact be a bit easier in this regard as it has support for all the preprocessor steps. ghc-exactprint exposes a parser which you might find useful[1]. As for other preprocessing, I'm not sure what else you specifically want to know about but I might be able to help if you're more specific. Matt [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint-1.9.21/docs/Language-Haskell-HLint... [2]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-exactprint-0.3.1/docs/Language-Haske... On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Carlo Nucera <meditans@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all, I'm writing a tool to analyze source code of a package, which uses haskell-src-extra. As copied from hackage, libraries may contain some extra stuff (for example, cpp directives). What is the modern way to preprocess the package (configuring for the environment, running the cpp ecc) to obtain code which is guaranteed to be parsed by haskell-src-extra?

Ideally I'd like to leave most of the logic for this part outside of the package. Could you point me towards some libraries doing a similar thing?

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