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Distribution.Simple.PreProcess | Portability | portable | Stability | alpha | Maintainer | Isaac Jones <ijones@syntaxpolice.org> |
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Description |
PreProcessors are programs or functions which input a filename and
output a Haskell file. The general form of a preprocessor is input
Foo.pp and output Foo.hs (where pp is a unique extension that
tells us which preprocessor to use eg. gc, ly, cpphs, x, y, etc.).
Once a PreProcessor has been added to Cabal, either here or with
UserHooks, if Cabal finds a Foo.pp, it'll run the given
preprocessor which should output a Foo.hs.
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Documentation |
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preprocessSources |
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knownSuffixHandlers :: [PPSuffixHandler] |
Standard preprocessors: GreenCard, c2hs, hsc2hs, happy, alex and cpphs.
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ppSuffixes :: [PPSuffixHandler] -> [String] |
Convenience function; get the suffixes of these preprocessors.
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type PPSuffixHandler = (String, BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor) |
A preprocessor for turning non-Haskell files with the given extension
into plain Haskell source files.
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data PreProcessor |
The interface to a preprocessor, which may be implemented using an
external program, but need not be. The arguments are the name of
the input file, the name of the output file and a verbosity level.
Here is a simple example that merely prepends a comment to the given
source file:
ppTestHandler :: PreProcessor
ppTestHandler =
PreProcessor {
platformIndependent = True,
runPreProcessor = mkSimplePreProcessor $ \inFile outFile verbosity ->
do info verbosity (inFile++" has been preprocessed to "++outFile)
stuff <- readFile inFile
writeFile outFile ("-- preprocessed as a test\n\n" ++ stuff)
return ExitSuccess
We split the input and output file names into a base directory and the
rest of the file name. The input base dir is the path in the list of search
dirs that this file was found in. The output base dir is the build dir where
all the generated source files are put.
The reason for splitting it up this way is that some pre-processors don't
simply generate one output .hs file from one input file but have
dependencies on other genereated files (notably c2hs, where building one
.hs file may require reading other .chi files, and then compiling the .hs
file may require reading a generated .h file). In these cases the generated
files need to embed relative path names to each other (eg the generated .hs
file mentions the .h file in the FFI imports). This path must be relative to
the base directory where the genereated files are located, it cannot be
relative to the top level of the build tree because the compilers do not
look for .h files relative to there, ie we do not use "-I .", instead we
use "-I dist/build" (or whatever dist dir has been set by the user)
Most pre-processors do not care of course, so mkSimplePreProcessor and
runSimplePreProcessor functions handle the simple case.
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mkSimplePreProcessor :: (FilePath -> FilePath -> Verbosity -> IO ()) -> (FilePath, FilePath) -> (FilePath, FilePath) -> Verbosity -> IO () |
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runSimplePreProcessor :: PreProcessor -> FilePath -> FilePath -> Verbosity -> IO () |
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ppCpp :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppCpp' :: [String] -> BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppGreenCard :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppC2hs :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppHsc2hs :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppHappy :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppAlex :: BuildInfo -> LocalBuildInfo -> PreProcessor |
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ppUnlit :: PreProcessor |
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