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C2HS(1) C->Haskell C2HS(1)

NAME

c2hs - C->Haskell Interface Generator

SYNOPSIS

c2hs [OPTIONS]... header-file binding-file

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly describes the c2hs command. For more details, refer to the main documentation, which is available in various other formats, including SGML and HTML; see below.

OPTIONS

The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are included below. For a complete description, see the other documentation.

c2hs accepts the following options:

brief help
show version information
show version number
use executable CPP to invoke C preprocessor
pass CPPOPTS to the C preprocessor
output result to FILE (should end in .hs)
place generated files in PATH
platform to use for cross compilation
keep pre-processed C header
copy `C2HS' library module to the current directory
dump internal information (for debugging), where TYPE is one of:
• trace
trace compiler phases
• genbind
trace binding generation
• ctrav
trace C declaration traversal
• chs
dump the binding file (adds .dump to the name)

header-file is the header file belonging to the marshalled library. It must end with suffix .h.

binding-file is the corresponding Haskell binding file, which must end with suffix .chs.

PLATFORM The platform name can be one of: x86_64-linux. i686-linux. m68k-palmos. This allows for cross-compilation, assuming the rest of your toolchain supports that. The default is the current host platform.

The most useful of these options is probably --cppopts (or -C). If the C header file needs any special options (like -D or -I) to go through the C pre-processor, here is the place to pass them.

EXAMPLES

The easiest way to use the C->Haskell Interface Generator is via Cabal. Cabal knows about .chs files and will run c2hs automatically, passing the appropriate flags.

When used directly, c2hs is usually called as:

c2hs lib.h Lib.chs

where lib.h is the header file and Lib.chs the Haskell binding module, which define the C- and Haskell-side interface, respectively. If no errors occur, the result is a pure Haskell module Lib.hs, which implements the Haskell API of the library.

A more advanced call may look like this:

c2hs --cppopts=-I/some/obscure/dir --cppopts=-DEXTRA lib.h Lib.chs

Often, lib.h will not be in the current directory, but in one of the header file directories. Apart from the current directory, C->Haskell looks in two places for the header: first, in the standard include directory of the used system, this is usually /usr/include and /usr/local/include; and second, it will look in every directory that is mentioned in a -IDIR option passed to the pre-processor via --cppopts.

CAVEATS

If you have more than one option that you want to give to the pre-processor, use multiple --cppopts= flags.

SEE ALSO

User guide /usr/share/doc/c2hs-0.15.1/html/c2hs.html

Home page http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/

BUGS

Please report bugs and feature requests in the c2hs trac

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/c2hs/

or to the C->Haskell mailing list c2hs@haskell.org

COPYRIGHT

C->Haskell Version 0.15.1 Copyright (c) [1999..2007] Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au>

AUTHOR

This manual page was mainly assembled from the original documentation.

It was written by Michael Weber <michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

November 2007 Version 0.15.1