INSTALL

                     C->Haskell Installation Instructions            -*-text-*-
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Prerequisites
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You need GHC, the Haskell compiler. Currently, this has to be GHC 6.8 upwards,
which you can get from

  http://haskell.org/ghc


Simple install procedure
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  % tar -xzf <package>.tar.gz           # unpack the sources
  % cd <package>                        # change to the toplevel directory
  % runghc Setup.hs configure           # configure the build system
  % runghc Setup.hs build               # build everything
  [ Become root if necessary ]
  % runghc Setup.hs install             # install c2hs


The Nitty-Gritty
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The './Setup.hs configure' command understands the following options:

*  --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
                           [ Defaults to /usr/local ]

*  --with-compiler=HC      use Haskell compiler HC

This needs to be the full path to the compiler executable.

*  --with-happy=HAPPY      ditto for parser generator Happy

*  --with-alex=ALEX        ditto for lexer generator Alex

*  --user                  allow the use of packages from user database

*  --global                only allow packages from the global database


Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Documentation can be formatted with

  $ make -C doc

Currently there is no support for installing the documentation. That step
has to be done manually.

The generated html pages for the user guide live in:

  docs/user_guide/*

The man page is:

  docs/man1/c2hs.1

Supported Systems and Porting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tested with GHC version 6.8.2 and 6.10.1.

In principle it should work with any 6.x version since 6.4.2 however the
current releases of the language-c package only work with ghc-6.8 and later.

The actual c2hs sources might also compile with nhc98, but Cabal doesn't fully
support nhc98 yet.