--- Isaac Jones
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runhugs: Error occurred Reading file "Setup.lhs": Reading file ".\Distribution\Simple.hs": Parsing ERROR ".\Distribution\Simple.hs":52 - Syntax error in module definition (unexpec ted selector "#ifdef") ]]
You're going to have some trouble using Hugs here, since the makefile doesn't have any hugs target and so there's no preprocessing step. Theoretically, most if not all of the code is portable, we just need the makefile rules to do the bootstrapping and such. It'll be easier once we figure out how to do preprocessing in cabal itself, so I've been a little lazy here.
One way to make Cabal really portable is to move the entire platform specific code out of it. One example is Distribution.Simple.GHCPackageConfig.localPackageConfig function, which uses HOME environment variable to determine the user's home directory, but this doesn't work under Windows. The CVS System.Directory module already provides the getAppUserDataDirectory function which is more suitable (and portable) in this case. Another example is Distribution.Simple.Utils.findBinary. Recently I had updated it and now it is portable but now I see that a similar function is used in runghc tool but in its non portable version. If we move this to the standard libraries then we will be able to use it in both cases. Most of the other #ifdef-s are related to the filepath handling. It will be great benefit if we isolate it in a separate library. I already use the filepath routines in VSHaskell. You can see that a similar functions are used in haddock, happy and alex tools. Maybe if we agree on this it is not too late to add it before the next GHC release. Cheers, Krasimir __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com