Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:

Hello

I am trying to use Cabal for a small library that essentially just wraps a C library. There seems to be no (documented) way of linking the produced library with an external library.

To be clear, extra-libs isn't what you want? If not, you have two choices: 1) add this feature to cabal and send me the patch (preferably with a simple "darcs record" and "darcs send") 2) the basic strategy for doing something that _almost_ fits the pattern of the "Distribution.Simple" infrastructure is to copy Distribution.Simple, and add what you need, in this case, probably to the BuildCmd line :) that way, it conforms to the command-line interface and you don't have to do any extra work. (snip)

Extensions: ForeignFunctionInterface -- -fglasgow-exts is needed for data without a constructor -- -#include is a hack -- -cpp needs a better way of saying it (snip)

I hope to have a coherent preprocessing system in the near future. peace, isaac