accessing compilation parameters from template haskell

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

Hi,

It would be useful to access the current compilation parameters or even
an entire RunGhc monad from inside a Template Haskell splice. Is there
any way to do this?

The reason I want to do this is I'm using the ghc API at runtime to
dynamically execute code, and I want both the dynamically loaded code
and static code to use a shared runtime module that defines some types
used for communication across the boundary. To guarantee the internal
representations etc are the same, I store the object file of the runtime
during compilation then load it dynamically at runtime - but to make
this work I need to know where the object file is (-odir and -hidir) and
I also need to know or be able to deduce the GHC DynFlags so I can
replicate them at runtime.

I could also achieve this goal by putting my runtime in a separate
package and installing it first, but that's less self-contained and
would be a pain during development.

Cheers,

Ganesh