[Haskell-cafe] Using cmake with haskell

[Gregory Crosswhite]

What on earth are you doing that mixes Haskell, C++, Scala, and Python?  
I am very intrigued by the very idea of such a project.  :-)

I have to confess that don't care for waf myself because I had 
unpleasant experiences using it which stemmed in part from its design 
which I also didn't like.  For example, if you don't get the proper 
complex incantations correct then it will simply fail silently without 
giving you any hint as to what you might have gotten wrong, even for the 
most basic of tasks!  Also, the last time I looked into waf in depth a 
couple of years ago the basic task model was designed around a language 
like C++  where there is a build phase and then a link phase and 
everything within a phase can be built in any order, so to compile 
something like Haskell code you need to essentially put every file in 
its own phase, but the scheduler they used for phases was not optimized 
at all precisely because they were assuming a C++-like model where there 
were only a couple of phases;  they could have changed this since then, 
though.

But anyway, I am always willing to keep an open mind about tools if 
someone convinces me that my current negative impressions about them is 
wrong or outdated, so if you got waf to build a project with all four of 
those languages then that does definitely give it extra points in my 
book.  :-)

Cheers,
Greg

On 5/14/11 6:12 PM, Nathan Howell wrote:
>
> Waf supports parallel builds and works with GHC without too much 
> trouble. I use it in a mixed Haskell, C++, Scala and Python build. If 
> there is interest I could conceivably clean up the ghc waf tool and 
> release it.
>
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gregory Crosswhite 
> <gcross at phys.washington.edu <mailto:gcross at phys.washington.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 5/14/11 1:25 PM, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote:
>
>         (to mention
>         one which is often neglected - parallel build).
>
>
>     While I do appreciate you stepping in to defend autotools (if for
>     no other reason then because someone has to so that the discussion
>     is balanced :-) ), I think that you are wrong to say that
>     autotools is unusual in getting the idea of parallel builds right,
>     since in my experience the opposite is the case:  most systems
>     support parallel builds --- such as SCons, CMake, I think waf,
>     etc. --- with Cabal being an outlier here.
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Greg
>
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