I've been working on this Haskell project, and I have a cabal file for it. Now, my project is structured as a library that implements a simple interpreter. I also have a very short Main file which needs to be build into an executable to call the library. What I want to do is:
1) compile the library and expose some of the modules
2) compile the executable
I have a cabal file that works and seems to do this. The problem is that when it compiles the executable it recompiles all the modules which have already been compiled in step (1). I don't quite understand why it does this - is there any way to stop it, short of creating two separate cabal files?
I don't really want to create two separate cabal files, because cabal doesn't seem to like having both the cabal files in the same directory, and I don't really want to set up a separate project directory for the second step, since it basically just amounts to compiling a single file.
cabal-version: >= 1.6
build-type: Simple
name: HaSC
version: 0.2.3
license: OtherLicense
category: Language
author: Chris B
maintainer: Chris B
copyright: Chris B 2010 - 2011
synopsis: (HA)skell (S)ound (C)hange applier (HaSC) library
description: HaSC implements a little language for applying sound changes to words
homepage: http://www.chrisdb.me.uk/redmine/projects/haskell-sound-change
stability: Alpha
data-files: doc/HaSCDoc.pdf
license-file: LICENSE
library
build-depends:
base >= 4.3,
containers >= 0.3,
parsec >= 3,
parallel >= 3.1,
deepseq >= 1.1,
mtl >= 1.1,
transformers >= 0.2,
text >= 0.10,
text-icu >= 0.6.3,
pretty >= 1,
directory >= 1.1,
filepath >= 1.2
hs-source-dirs: src
exposed-modules: HaSC.IO.Disk,
HaSC.IO.Memory,
HaSC.Exec
other-modules: HaSC.AST,
HaSC.IO,
HaSC.IdentMap,
HaSC.Parse,
HaSC.Regex,
HaSC.Representation,
HaSC.Transformations,
HaSC.Search,
HaSC.State
executable HaSC
GHC-Options: -rtsopts
hs-source-dirs: src
main-is: Main.hs