GHC API: Access to nativeCodeGen?

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

pj:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use nativeCodeGen outside of GHC to generate code from
> an IR. The IR would be produced by a third party program, not the GHC
> frontend. 
> 
> Looking at CVS HEAD I can see that GHC.hs exports plenty of things
> (for the GHC API I presume), but I can't find anything that lets me
> input some sort of IR and have ASM in return. Am I missing it
> somewhere or is there no way to input IR and get ASM in return? If
> there isn't, is such a feature planned/wanted?
> 
> If such a feature isn't planned, I would appreciate any ideas on how
> to to accomplish the same thing. I have no problems with having a
> build tree of GHC laying around if that makes things easier. It would
> be a nice bonus if it made my maintenance burden low.

You could use External Core with GHC, couldn't you?