Main-Is not creating executable

Alistair Bayley alistair at abayley.org
Tue Jan 20 15:30:45 EST 2009


2009/1/20 Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org>:
> I have this in Takusen.cabal:
>
> Executable miniunit_tests
>  Main-Is: Test/MiniUnit/Main.hs
>  Build-Depends:  base, mtl
>  Extensions: CPP
>  CPP-Options: "-DNEW_EXCEPTION"
>
> (as well as the Library section). When it builds, the modules compile
> fine, but then I get:
>
> Warning: output was redirected with -o, but no output will be
> generated because there is no Main module.


My fault. Turns out the module in Test/MiniUnit/Main.hs must be just
Main, not Test.MiniUnit.Main i.e.
module Main where...

But the second question still stands: can I selectively build the
various targets in the .cabal file?

Alistair


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