[Fwd: Re: Adding an option to cabal-install]

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:23 +0000, jim burton wrote:
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> > 
> > You're quite right, that would be much neater. I've no experience with
> > Windows programming though, so I'd welcome any input. Google suggests
> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
> > Settings] is the key we want and I suppose I need System.Win32.Registry,
> > hKEY_CURRENT_USER and regCreateKey? 
> > 
> > What is the normal/best way of switching on OS?
> > 
> You can ignore that one, I think it's OPTIONS cpp and #ifdef WIN32. But
> is it possible to do the same thing in the .cabal file, so windows users
> don't need `unix' and vice versa?

Use configurations in the .cabal file:

if os(windows)
  build-depends: Win32
  cpp-options: -DWIN32

Duncan