On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:35:42AM -0700, brad clawsie wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:36:40PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > otherwise i was wondering if people had good examples to point me to > > > for providing the cross-platform support needed for a FFI-based module > > > such as this. i have made the necessary changes to compile the code on > > > freebsd, but for other platforms i am not sure at all, particularly > > > non-unix style platforms like windows. > > > > What sort of changes do you mean? > > the need to locate the curl library and headers in different places on > different platforms. the defaults used (for linux i presume) do not > work for freebsd for example. > > my guess is i need autotools to do this, but i am not sure
Oh, you mean adding library/include paths to the Cabal file? Right, that will either need to use the new pkg-config support in Cabal 1.2 (if curl uses pkg-config), or autotools (substituting into a .buildinfo file is probably the easiest way). Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
