Ticket #229 (new enhancement)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 18 months ago

Build C sources using the system's C compiler directly

Reported by: guest Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Cabal-1.8
Component: Cabal library Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: dagitj@…, fmartini@… 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

Changed 5 years ago by guest

  • cc fmartini@… added

Changed 5 years ago by duncan

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

Changed 5 years ago by duncan

  • milestone changed from Cabal-1.6 to Cabal-1.8

Changed 2 years ago by duncan

  • cc dagitj@… added

See also ticket #816 on the difficulties caused.

Changed 18 months ago by elga

*  virgin mobile

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