<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Distribution.Simple.Build</title><link href="ocean.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="Ocean" /><script src="haddock-util.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[ window.onload = function () {pageLoad();setSynopsis("mini_Distribution-Simple-Build.html");}; //]]> </script></head><body><div id="package-header"><ul class="links" id="page-menu"><li><a href="index.html">Contents</a></li><li><a href="doc-index.html">Index</a></li></ul><p class="caption">Cabal-1.14.0: A framework for packaging Haskell software</p></div><div id="content"><div id="module-header"><table class="info"><tr><th>Portability</th><td>portable</td></tr><tr><th>Maintainer</th><td>cabal-devel@haskell.org</td></tr><tr><th>Safe Haskell</th><td>None</td></tr></table><p class="caption">Distribution.Simple.Build</p></div><div id="description"><p class="caption">Description</p><div class="doc"><p>This is the entry point to actually building the modules in a package. It doesn't actually do much itself, most of the work is delegated to compiler-specific actions. It does do some non-compiler specific bits like running pre-processors. </p></div></div><div id="synopsis"><p id="control.syn" class="caption expander" onclick="toggleSection('syn')">Synopsis</p><ul id="section.syn" class="hide" onclick="toggleSection('syn')"><li class="src short"><a href="#v:build">build</a> :: <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Simple-Setup.html#t:BuildFlags">BuildFlags</a> -> [<a href="Distribution-Simple-PreProcess.html#t:PPSuffixHandler">PPSuffixHandler</a>] -> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</li><li class="src short"><a href="#v:initialBuildSteps">initialBuildSteps</a> :: <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:FilePath">FilePath</a> -> <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Verbosity.html#t:Verbosity">Verbosity</a> -> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</li><li class="src short"><a href="#v:writeAutogenFiles">writeAutogenFiles</a> :: <a href="Distribution-Verbosity.html#t:Verbosity">Verbosity</a> -> <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a> -> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</li></ul></div><div id="interface"><h1>Documentation</h1><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:build" class="def">build</a></p><div class="subs arguments"><p class="caption">Arguments</p><table><tr><td class="src">:: <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a></td><td class="doc"><p>Mostly information from the .cabal file </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a></td><td class="doc"><p>Configuration information </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="Distribution-Simple-Setup.html#t:BuildFlags">BuildFlags</a></td><td class="doc"><p>Flags that the user passed to build </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> [<a href="Distribution-Simple-PreProcess.html#t:PPSuffixHandler">PPSuffixHandler</a>]</td><td class="doc"><p>preprocessors to run before compiling </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div><div class="doc"><p>Build the libraries and executables in this package. </p></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:initialBuildSteps" class="def">initialBuildSteps</a></p><div class="subs arguments"><p class="caption">Arguments</p><table><tr><td class="src">:: <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:FilePath">FilePath</a></td><td class="doc"><p><a href="dist.html">dist</a> prefix </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a></td><td class="doc"><p>mostly information from the .cabal file </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a></td><td class="doc"><p>Configuration information </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="Distribution-Verbosity.html#t:Verbosity">Verbosity</a></td><td class="doc"><p>The verbosity to use </p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:writeAutogenFiles" class="def">writeAutogenFiles</a> :: <a href="Distribution-Verbosity.html#t:Verbosity">Verbosity</a> -> <a href="Distribution-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a> -> <a href="Distribution-Simple-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a> -> <a href="../base-4.5.1.0/System-IO.html#t:IO">IO</a> ()</p><div class="doc"><p>Generate and write out the Paths_<a href="pkg">pkg</a>.hs and cabal_macros.h files </p></div></div></div></div><div id="footer"><p>Produced by <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/">Haddock</a> version 2.11.0</p></div></body></html>