Unit-testing of GHC code

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> 
> and so on (Hunit would only be a convenient interface here). The question is how can I import a GHC module from within the testsuite and call its functions to test it they behave propertly? An attempt to simply import the module results in compilation error:
> 
>     Failed to load interface for ‛Foo’
>     It is a member of the hidden package ‛ghc-7.7.20130731’.
>     Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> 
> Is there a workaround for this?

You need to use "-package ghc" if you want to use the GHC API.


Thanks
Ian
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