[Haskell-cafe] libraries and executables in cabal

[Henning Thielemann]

Paul Brauner schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm working on a project made of
> 
>  - lots of modules
>  - one excutable importing these modules
>  - another excutable importing these same modules
> 
> I don't especially want to expose those modules as libraries, especially
> on hackage, since they are meaningless without the executables.
> 
> But, if I declare two executables in my .cabal file, cabal will
> compile all those modules two times each time I want to compile the
> executables.
> 
> Is there a way to tell cabal that those modules should be considered
> part of a "private" library ?

You can at least add Other-Modules to the Executables, but the problem
of recompilation remains. Otherwise you may create a separate library
package that contains all the code for the executables but only exposes
the two main functions.