On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Cowie < and...@operationaldynamics.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 08:18 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > > Anyone have any idea if the Cabal library exposes this > > > somewhere? > > > > See... > > I blogged about my solution using Krzysztof and Henk's suggestions here: > > http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/haskell/config-dot-h-and-ifdef > > Cheers everyone, I read your blog post and I'm afraid I don't see the point: you write some code to tap into a pre-existing library that figures out what platform you are on so that you can write out a 'config.h' that #define's the platform you are on so that you can then use the C preprocessor to pick a particular code path via conditional compilation. Why go to all that bother? Why not just write code that writes out the path you want to take and link against it? - Dan C.
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