HaskellDirect User's Manual - version 0.26

Sigbjorn Finne <sof@dcs.gla.ac.uk>

1. Introduction

2. Foreign function interfaces and Haskell

3. Using IDL

• 3.1 Interfacing to C libraries
• 3.2 Interfacing to Haskell libraries
• 3.3 COM client examples
• 3.4 COM component examples

4. Invoking the compiler

• 4.1 Help and verbosity options
• 4.2 Redirecting the compilation output(s)
• 4.3 Finding imports
• 4.4 Picking the right front end
• 4.5 Picking the right back end
• 4.6 Tweaking the output
• 4.7 Debugging the output
• 4.8 COM specific options
• 4.9 Running a pre-processor
• 4.10 Off-line attribute specification

5. Compiling the output

• 5.1 Compiling C library stubs
• 5.2 Compiling COM clients
• 5.3 Linking Haskell COM DLLs
• 5.4 Using Hugs

6. HaskellDirect examples

• 6.1 Interfacing with C header files
• 6.2 Generating COM client stubs
• 6.3 Generating Lambada stubs
• 6.4 Implementing Haskell COM servers

7. Support libraries

• 7.1 The HDirect library
• 7.2 The WideString library
• 7.3 The Com library
• 7.4 The Automation library
• 7.5 The ComServ library
• 7.6 The StdDispatch library
• 7.7 The EnumInterface library
• 7.8 Wrapping up COM components

8. IDL resources

9. Feedback/reporting bugs