On 20 August 2010 10:18, Christopher Done <chrisd...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Does Cabal have a way to produce binary distributions from a package?
No but it's not too hard to do. If you actually want an RPM or a DEB etc, then look into the cabal2rpm etc tools, they help automate the process. If you want a generic binary then: You first prepare an image, but using: cabal copy --destdir=./tmp/image/ Now you tar up the image directory, unpack it on the target. Note that the prefix/paths you specified at configure time need to be the same on the target machine. There is no support yet on unix for relocatable / prefix independent binaries. In particular it needs the paths to be correct to be able to find data files. > I need to create a binary distribution of my project which does not > depend on GHC or any development tools. The package should include all > required data files and configuration files. I've got the latter > covered with Data-Files and getDataFileName, but not sure about what > to do regarding configuration files -- read/write to > $HOME/.myproject/config or $HOME/.myprojectrc, etc., or what? Right, config files you should just look in a per-user or global location. You can use a data file to store a default so that the program can work with no config file. > I'm specifically targeting Redhat because that's the production > server, but I'm wondering if there is or will be a way to agnostically > access data files and configuration files without having to think > about what OS it will be running on, in the same way I can use sockets > or file access without worrying about the particular OS. > > Something like cabal sdist --binary --rpm/deb/arch/win/etc? We might eventually add something for generic binaries but we will leave specific distros and packaging systems to specialised tools. > How does everyone else package up their Haskell programs for binary > distribution? As I mentioned there are also tools like cabal2rpm that help build binary packages for specific distros. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe