Ticket #229 (new enhancement)

Opened 5 months ago

Last modified 2 weeks ago

Build C sources using the system's C compiler directly

Reported by: guest Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: Cabal-1.6
Component: Cabal library Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: fmartini@gmail.com Difficulty: hard (< 1 day)
GHC Version: 6.8.2 Platform:

Description

Currently Cabal builds C sources by going via ghc. On some platforms this introduces some limitations (Windows especially, I think).

See this conversation for an example where it would be useful: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg37179.html

Change History

02/03/08 04:41:09 changed by guest

  • cc set to fmartini@gmail.com.

06/19/08 06:10:58 changed by duncan

  • difficulty changed from normal to hard (< 1 day).
  • milestone set to Cabal-1.6.