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