Is it possible to use cmake for Haskell projects?

Question

I am planning a project written in Haskell, maybe there are some parts in C as well. For the buildsystem I decided against the common choice for Haskell programs cabal, mainly b

Answer 1

I've rewritten @arrowdodger's initial work, in the process fixing a couple bugs that were present:

• Could not be used from an in-project cmake/ directory because of hardcoded paths
• There were some occurrences of Fortran/CXX variables (which caused buggy behaviour)
• Lots of code that was irrelevant to Haskell could be removed, other code added based on newer versions of the C/CXX language files that ship with CMake

The repository can be found at:

https://github.com/kvanberendonck/cmake-haskell

Working beautifully for me, and the build speed I can get out of ninja is extremely impressive.