[Yhc] New Build System

[Peter Tanski]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

>> What about a direct interface to darcs?  At least that way you could
>> sponge off the darcs wrapper for curl.
>
> I have actually implemented this, I just mirrored the repos to some
> web space, then execute darcs get --partial. Removes the need for
> untar and wget in one step, plus much simpler.

Right on!

>> > 2) Compile Yhi, which requires make-style knowledge about C.  
>> Scons had
>> > this built in much more, I'll need to roll my own.
>
> Talking to Malcom, I think its under 50 lines of code, and quite nice
> code at that.

Nice.

>> > Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
>> As an alternative to using GHC to control the C-compiler, you might
>> consider using VCBUILD from the command line for the current
>> yhi .vcproj files.  Towards that end, here is an unfinished module I
>> started writing
>
> Compiling C with GHC will work everywhere, VC will only work on
> Windows, gcc will only work (natively and normally) on Unix - hence
> the attraction of GHC. Adding back VS building afterwards would be a
> goal, so using your code at that point would be nice. The reason for
> favouring GHC is everyone has GHC installed, while I only have VS
> installed on one of my 3 development machines.

That was the direction GHC is moving in, as well: put all the  
platform-specific C-compiler knowledge into GHC.  At least now the  
GHC Windows distribution comes with a minimal MinGW installation, as  
well.

Cheers,
Pete Tanski