[Haskell-cafe] Building examples with Cabal

[adam vogt]

Hi Sven,

Maybe your examples can be imported into a single module that cabal
can build/run with cabal test? I mean something like:


examples/Ex1.hs:
module Ex1 (main) where main = ...


examples/importAll.hs:
module Main where
import Ex1
import Ex2
...
main = return ()

Then in the cabal file have something like:

test-suite build_examples
  type:          exitcode-stdio-1.0
  main-is:       examples/importAll.hs
  hs-source-dirs: examples
  <those other settings repeated once only>


--
Adam

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/10/16 Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de>:
>> I usually declare an "Executable" for each example and add a flag
>> "buildExamples" that controls whether the examples are built or not. Here an
>> example .cabal file.
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/threepenny-gui-0.3.0.0/threepenny-gui.cabal
>
> I tried something similar in the past, but that didn't really work out:
>
>   * Things get *extremely* verbose and repetitive in the .cabal file.
> Currently there are roughly 90 GLUT examples, and I expect to have
> much more in the future. This would lead to more than 1000 lines of
> boilerplate .cabal stuff. OK, Emacs macros and copy-n-paste are your
> friends, but... :-P
>
>   * Can Cabal build the executables in parallel? Doing a parallel
> build of all examples via my make hack takes about 5 seconds, a
> non-parallel build takes 75 seconds, and I expect that gap to widen
> even more when I add more examples.
>
>   * How does one handle common parts in the examples? (e.g.
> https://github.com/haskell-opengl/GLUT/tree/master/examples/RedBook8/common,
> more to come there) Conditionally build helper libraries just for the
> examples?
>
> I can't believe that I'm the only package maintainer who has such a
> problem, so I really hope that there is some hidden solution out there
> I simply can't see...
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