Exporting an #include from one package to another?

Conal Elliott conal at conal.net
Wed Nov 26 01:38:00 EST 2008


wonderful!  i'll try it out.  thanks, duncan.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:28 -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
> > Is there a way to package up an #include like to share across (be
> > #include'd into) various other haskell packages?
> >
> > I have some standard templates for type class instances that I can't
> > define as instances without creating lots of overlapping instances.  I
> > can write an include file easily enough, but I don't know how to get
> > other packages to find and #include that include file.
>
> Yes. This is partly what the "install-includes:" field in the .cabal
> file is for.
>
> Each client has to #include it explicitly of course, but the include
> search path should be set up to make that work.
>
> Duncan
>
>
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