Cabal and c2hs

[Duncan Coutts]

Late reply I know, but in case you're still having trouble:

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 08:30 +0100, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
> Dominic Steinitz wrote:
> > Ignore my previous message, it was a lot simpler than I thought it was
> > 
> >> import Distribution.Simple
> >> import Distribution.Simple.PreProcess
> >>
> >> main = 
> >>    defaultMainWithHooks 
> >>       defaultUserHooks {
> >>          hookedPreProcessors =  
> >>             [("chs", ppC2hs)]
> >>       }

There is no need to use a custom Setup.hs script for this. Cabal already
knows that .chs files are processed by c2hs.

> But now I get a build error
> 
> > dom at lagrange:~/networktools/ping> ./Setup build
> > Preprocessing executables for Ping-0.0...
> > dist/build/ping/ping-tmp/IP_ICMP.chs.h:1:21: error: ip_icmp.h: No such file or directory
> > c2hs: Error during preprocessing custom header file
> 
> But ip_icmp.h is there!

> How do I tell cabal that ip_icmp.h is in the current directory not
> buried somewhere?

Use:

include-dirs: .


Duncan