[jhc] Building cabal packages

[David Roundy]

What does the cabal file look like?

David

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks David.
>
> --list-libraries does include the Yampa package, but the verbose option
> doesn't show any exported modules. So the next question: how can I convince
> JHC to compile the exposed-modules in that cabal file?
>
> -chris
>
> On 16 nov 2009, at 21:40, David Roundy wrote:
>
>> Jhc (in this regard it is just like ghc, in fact) accepts only a very
>> simple format similar to the cabal files.  Ghc introduced this file
>> format first, and jhc works fine (I think) with just about any file
>> produced for ghc, but not with the newer cabal stuff (that ghc will
>> also barf on).  That said, it sounds quite likely that your build
>> worked.
>>
>> What do you get with jhc --list-libraries and jhc --list-libraries
>> --verbose?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> What's the way to build a cabalized package with jhc? I tried the
>>> following:
>>>
>>>> hc --build-hl Yampa.cabal yampa-0.9.2.3.hl
>>>> jhc --build-hl Yampa.cabal yampa-0.9.2.3.hl
>>>> jhc 0.7.3 (-n 0.7.2-40
>>>> )
>>>> Creating library from description file: "Yampa.cabal"
>>>> Reading: "Yampa.cabal"
>>>> Finding Dependencies...
>>>> Using Ho Cache: '/Users/chris/.jhc/cache'
>>>> Typechecking...
>>>> Compiling...
>>>> Writing Library: Yampa-0.9.2.3.hl
>>>
>>> But I don't think jhc actually compiled something, or it was *really*
>>> fast.
>>> I tried copying that .hl file to my JHC_LIBRARY_PATH, but when I invoke
>>> JHC
>>> with "-pyampa" it still won't find it. I'm a bit lost...
>>>
>>> -chris
>
>



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David Roundy