/ToolCabal

Extending Cabal with Plugins, Preprocessors and Multi-target Compilers

Primary LanguageHaskell

ToolCabal

Extending Cabal with Plugins, Preprocessors and Multi-target Compilers

This a rewrite form scratch of the build system of cabal

This is a beta version and documentation is not yet complete.

The following is supported:

  • Multiple targets and flavours to be build simultaneously (only GHC)
    • Use --compiler-target=TARGET and --compiler-flavour=FLAVOUR flags
  • use preprocessors directly in the package description
    • use-tool PREPROCESSOR (INPUTFILE, OUTPUTFILE, FLAGS)
      • FLAGS are always written as -f -f=OPTION --f --f=OPTION syntax
  • plugins for preprocessors
    • see for an example the istTool.hs file inside TestProject
  • For the new package description format
    • see example inside the TestProject

To test:

  • build the tools library and toolCabal executable (using cabal)
  • run toolCabal in the TestProject folder