Hi Koral,
the files Types.chs and Signal.chs are always auto-generated in every Gtk2Hs
module. The reason why Object itself is not generated is that it is imported
from the Types.chs file from glib.
Yes, there could be more documentation...
Regards,
Axel
On 21.04.2013, at 19:12, koral <ko...@mailoo.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've started fiddling with webkit's binding, as it seems rather unmaintained
> and as I need some missing functions for my project (hbro).
> First surprise: as is, darcs version of webkit package doesn't compile,
> because of missing ObjectClass instances in Type.chs.
>
> I didn't find any documentation about how the build chain works, so I
> resorted to a plain reading of Setup*.hs files.
> I first attempted to edit Types.chs directly, until I realized it is
> generated by gtk2hsTypeGen before each build -- would have appreciated some
> hint about that not to waste time.
>
> I had to print some internal states from SetupMain.hs to display the
> arguments fed to gtk2hsTypeGen -- side suggestion: what about adding some
> logs in Gtk2Hs module so that newbies can understand what's going on ?
> So it appears hierarchy{,3}.list files are read by gtk2hsTypeGen to generate
> Type.chs. I noticed that GtkObject was removed from hierarchy3.list, and that
> putting it back fixes the build as the ObjectClass instances get generated.
>
> Was that GtkObject removal intended ? If yes, how else could we fix webkit's
> build ?
>
> Also, as I'm planning to update the webkit's package a little bit, would you
> have some documentation/guidelines to recommend ? I've just started learning
> FFI so I'm not aware of the usual idioms/good practices to apply.
>
> --
> koral
>
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