Distributing a Haskell program as C source

Question

Say I have a Haskell program or library that I\'d like to make accessible to non-Haskellers, potentially C programmers. Can I compile it to C using GHC and then distribute this

Answer 1

I'm interested in being able to write portions of programs in C and Haskell, and then distributing it as a tarball, but without requiring the target to have GHC and Cabal installed.

You're asking for an awful lot of infrastructure that you're unlikely to find. Remember that any Haskell program, even if it is going to be compiled to C, is almost certain to depend on a large, complex run-time system for its correct operation. At a bare minimum, that run-time system has to support garbage collection and lazy evaluation. So you have more than just a translation problem.

I suggest you tackle this problem as a software-distribution problem. Rather than a tarball, provide a package for your favored distribution platform (Debian, Red Hat, InstallShield, whatever). Personally, in order to reuse other people's efforts, I would aim for something that checks for Cabal, installs Cabal if needed, then uses Cabal to install the rest of what your users will need.