What is the simplest way to build a Haskell project that uses a C++ library? It needs at least the following from Cabal. - It must know how to compile C++ files. This kind of works by accident if I list those under c-sources since gcc knows what to do with them but this is (a) ugly and (b) doesn't allow me to pass C++-specific options to gcc. - The project must be linked with g++. However, I don't understand how to tell Cabal which linker to use. I got as far as main = defaultMainWithHooks $ defaultUserHooks { hookedPrograms = [Program "ld" (findProgramOnPath "g++") (\_ _ -> return Nothing)] but this doesn't seem to work. configure --with-ld=g++ does, but it's not nice. Is there any simple way of making this work or do I have to use makefiles? Also, is it intentional that Cabal ignores standard environment variables such as CC, CFLAGS etc.? Roman