Graham Klyne
An alternative possibility might be to use GHC --make, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with the GHC package framework or the HaXml build structure to know if this is possible. The HaXml release notes suggest it is, but I don't see how to do it.
You can avoid using 'configure' and 'make' by just following the
recipe in the Makefile by hand. Realising that as a Windows person
you are probably inexperienced in reading a Makefile, here is the
quick version.
cd src
ghc --make -cpp -i. -package-name HaXml $(SRCS)
[ Replace $(SRCS) with the cut-and-pasted list of files from the Makefile ]
ar r libHSHaXml.a $(OBJS)
[ $(OBJS) is the source-file list replacing .hs by .o ]
ld -r --whole-archive -o HSHaXml.o libHSHaXml.a
[ only if you need to play with it in GHCi ]
cp libHSHaXml.a HSHaXml.o $(GHC_LIB_DIR)
[ install the library archive(s) where GHC can find them ]
{ tar cf interfaces.tar `find Text -name *.hi -print`
cp interfaces.tar $(GHC_LIB_DIR)/imports
cd $(GHC_LIB_DIR)/imports
tar xf interfaces.tar
rm interfaces.tar
}
[ install the interface files where GHC can find them ]
ghc-pkg --add-package